Roxas asks gov’t agencies to speed up processing of benefits

Senator Mar Roxas has written the Home Development Mutual Fund (PAG-IBIG) and Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), asking both agencies to provide immediate assistance to their members who suffered enormous losses due to typhoon “Frank” “Our government must now speed up the processing of the necessary documents so that the thousands of typhoon victims who […]

Roxas asks gov’t agencies to speed up processing of benefits

Senator Mar Roxas has written the Home Development Mutual Fund (PAG-IBIG) and Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), asking both agencies to provide immediate assistance to their members who suffered enormous losses due to typhoon “Frank” “Our government must now speed up the processing of the necessary documents so that the thousands of typhoon victims who […]

Roxas: War for Affordable Medicines starts after enactment

As a landmark law for affordable medicines is signed today, Senator Mar Roxas urged the executive to use the new law as a weapon against the unjust regime of exorbitantly-priced medicines that have long resulted in lives cut short. Roxas, the principal author of the Universally Accessible, Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act said that to […]

Roxas calls for immediate approval of Affordable Medicines law

Senator Mar Roxas urged President Arroyo to immediately sign into law the approved consolidated version of the quality affordable medicines bill so that its implementation can begin. Roxas, the principal author of the law now known as the “Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008,” said he is puzzled why the signing of […]

Solon warns public about alleged multi-million PR effort to discredit medicines law

Rep. Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya (1st District, Cavite) warned the public not to fall into the web of deceit and desperate hysterics being spun by doomsayers in Congress about the cheaper medicines bill. “I have received reports that there is a multi-million PR slush fund to discredit the bill and its key authors,” Abaya said, […]

Roxas: Now the real work begins

Given the assured passage of the Quality Affordable Medicines Act on or before Labor Day, Senator Mar Roxas, principal sponsor and author of the bill, challenged the executive branch to come up with a concrete action plan for its effective implementation. “I thank House Speaker Prospero Nograles and the House panel headed by Palawan Rep. […]