ANGARA: TOBACCO TAX HIKE GIVES GOV’T MORE ELBOW ROOM TO PLUG FUNDING GAP FOR UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE

Posted on: Tue, 06/04/2019 - 15:41 By: admin

Senator Sonny Angara said the government will be in a better position to fill the massive funding gap for the universal health care (UHC) program with the passage of the bill increasing the excise tax on tobacco products.

“With the approval by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the bill seeking higher tobacco excise taxes, we have come one step closer to giving the government more elbow room to plug the funding gap for the UHC program that aims to provide all Filipinos with affordable and quality health care,” Angara said.

ANGARA SPONSORS TOBACCO TAX HIKE BILL 

Posted on: Mon, 05/27/2019 - 16:36 By: admin

Senator Sonny Angara on Monday endorsed to the Senate plenary a bill increasing the excise tax on tobacco products in a bid to reduce smoking prevalence among Filipinos and raise crucial funding for the government’s Universal Health Care (UHC) program.

This developed as the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, which Angara chairs, adopted a committee report on the consolidated measure that will raise the excise tax for every cigarette pack from P35 to P60 for the next four years.

ANGARA: PH NEEDS MORE MEDICAL STUDENTS TO SPECIALIZE IN TREATING ELDERLY  

Posted on: Tue, 05/07/2019 - 15:37 By: ryan

Amid rising population of Filipino senior citizens and scarcity of specialists to treat them, reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara is urging medical students to pursue geriatric medicine, a specialty that focuses on the health care of elderly people.

The number of Filipinos at or over age 60 almost doubled to 8 million from 4.6 million between 2000 and 2018, according to government data. But despite this staggering number, there are only over a hundred doctors who specialize in treating senior citizens.

ANGARA SEEKS CREATION OF STATE-RUN RAIL FIRM IN MINDANAO

Posted on: Tue, 05/07/2019 - 13:57 By: ryan

With the construction of the first railway in Mindanao finally happening this year, reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara reiterated his proposal to create the state-owned Mindanao Railways Corp. that would oversee the efficient operation and maintenance of the future train system in the country’s second largest island.

Angara said the proposed “MindaRail” would serve as an instrumentality of the government in providing a railway system that would potentially bring peace, economic development and poverty reduction in Mindanao.

ANGARA ASKS KIN OF OFWs IN LIBYA: CONVINCE YOUR LOVED ONES TO COME HOME

Posted on: Fri, 05/03/2019 - 20:16 By: ryan

Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara is urging the families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Libya to convince their loved ones to return to the Philippines as soon as possible after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) raised to the highest level the crisis alert in the North African state due to intense fighting around the capital city of Tripoli.

The DFA declared Alert Level 4, which requires mandatory repatriation and a total ban on OFW deployment to Libya, where more than 3,500 Filipinos are currently employed.

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