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UHC 17: First, Second and Third Lines of UHC for the Poor
Later today, I will attend a round table discussion on Health System Shapers (HSS), Patients and Consumers Sector, at the Department of Health (DOH) main office. The goal of this and related fora is to...
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Mining 28: Markets, Government and Rule of Law
Of all sectors or industries in the Philippine economy, among the most heavily regulated, taxed and intervened by the government are the mining, pharmaceutical and petroleum industries. One proof if an...
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Lion Rock 6: Honoring Milton Friedman
Today is the 101st birthday of Milton Friedman. He died in November 2006. This great mind has been espousing free market and minimal government policies in many of his academic and public policy work...
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Welfarism 26: John Mangun on Economic Decline of the West
There are a few Philippine-based foreigners that I admire, especially those who are free market-leaning thinkers. Like good friend and fellow Rotarian, Bruce Hall, based in Iloilo City; Peter Wallace,...
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Inequality 17: Richest Filipinos in 2012
The other day, Forbes released the Philippines' 50 Richest in 2012.1. Henry Sy and family (SM group, BDO) - $12 billion2. Lucio Tan and family (PAL, PNB,…) - $7.5 billion3. Andrew Tan (Megaworld,...
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EFN Asia 26: Past Conferences and Avoiding the Middle Income Trap
The 2013 Economic Freedom Network (EFN) Asia Conference will be held more than two months from now in Bangkok. The theme this year will be Asia, the Middle Income Trap and Economic Freedom. EFN Annual...
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Pork Barrel: The Janet Napoles - Legislators' Scam
Abolish pork barrel. I support that, but I think this will happen 100 years from now, if ever. Legislators are deliberating on P2 trillion budget (this year) and nearly P2.3 trillion next year, and...
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Demography 19: Top 30 Countries in Population by 2050
* Notes: (1) I changed the subject series name from "Population Control" to "Demography" starting this paper. And (2) This is my article today in thelobbyist.biz.---------While many people in the...
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Pork Barrel 2: Napoles, Legislature and Executive Branches Corruption
The Napoles-Some Legislators’ pork barrel scandal continues for several weeks now. And I started reading only a few days ago. I saw that there are too many articles written already. Here are some...
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Mining 29: On Open Pit Extraction, Tampakan and SDMP
A friend, Arcy Garcia, posted this poster in facebook soliciting anti-Tampakan mining signatures from the public. It says that "Almost 4,000 hectares of lush rainforest will be cleared and dug."I...
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UHC 18: DOH Budget, Healthcare Deregulation and PharmaWealth
After I posted UHC 17: First, Second and Third Lines of UHC for the Poor in the Advisory Council loop last week, July 30, DOH USec Madz replied that DOH budget is presented as DOH proper which is...
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Pol. Ideology 45: Left Intellectualism Means Abandonment of Socialism
Last July 1-2, 2013, I butted in the fb posting of a friend – fellow UP Diliman and UP Sapul alumni, also a fellow Rotarian – Raffy Aquino, a lawyer. Our exchanges below. Posting with permission from...
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Pork Barrel 3: The Silent Idealists, the GFO-NGOs
The pork barrel scam and robbery continues, we should keep the pressure until a big investigation will yield some of those corrupt legislators in jail. Asking for the abolition of pork barrel I think...
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Fat-Free Econ 45: Newton's Laws of Motion and Traffic Congestion
* This is my article yesterday in interaksyon.com.---------British physicist and mathematician, Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was known for his contributions to classical mechanics and physics. His...
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Business 360 10: Foreign Aid as Band Aid Solution
* This is my article for the August 2013 issue of Business 360, published in Kathmandu, Nepal. The two figures below, ADB and WB lending to Nepal respectively, were not included in the published...
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Mining 30: Some Conceptual Considerations in Mining Tax
* This is my article today in Mining Week----------There are several proposals to amend the mining tax policy as contained in RA 7942 or the Mining Act of 1995. The dominant proposal so far is to have...
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Drug Price Control 37: Four Years of the Policy
* This is my article yesterday in thelobbyist.biz.------------This week, the drug price control or maximum retail price (MRP) policy has turned four years old. The policy was laid out in late July...
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Pork Barrel 4: Ten Q&A on the Pork Scandal
A friend from the foreign media asked me some questions about the current pork barrel scandal. This is an expanded version (more Qs, more As) of what I sent to him. The posters, I just added here as I...
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Stem Cell 1: PhilHealth to Cover SCT?
I was following the stem cell treatment (SCT) controversy in the Philippines recently. The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) and the Philippine Society of Stem Cell Medicine (PSSCM), both headed by...
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Stem Cell 2: Comments from My Physician Friends
After posting in my facebook status the PhilStar article re DOH Sec. Ona’s proposal that PhilHealth will soon cover stem cell treatment (SCT), several physician friends commented, below. The images I...
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