Mar Roxas, in his pre-mature campaigning teevee spot, sez we should nag the government some more for cheap medicines.
Why the government?
Why not nag the drug companies?
Filed under: musings, cheap medicine
18 January 2009 • 10:07 pm
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One of the presidentiables should take as a platform a Get-Well-Now/Pay-Later-Plan where Filipino-citizens (depending on collateral provided and their creditworthiness) borrow money from ????? to pay for medicine and medical services. The government should guarantee up to P200,000-per-citizen in such health welfare loans; money to be raised by adding an extra 1.5% onto VAT, and, of course, the ability of the government to collect on such citizen-loans.
Similar to Study-Now/Pay-Later-Plan for college/university student loans.
Well, it gives the government that nice fluffy feeling of being needed.