privatization
NAIA privatization: Bigger corruption at play
October 30, 2025
Ang highlights how much was “remitted” to the government—masking the fact that the public is being squeezed to fund both government collection and private profit.
Ang’s SMC to rake in billions from nearly doubled traveler fees
August 25, 2025
Under the NAIA PPP, SMC can propose additional fee increases in the coming years, turning this vital public service into a milking cow for the private consortium.
High time to end privatization behind high fees – SUKI
July 3, 2025
For years, privatization through government’s profit-driven PPPs have burdened the public with high user fees.
Disconnection Notice! Villars, oligarchs, should have no place in public services or utilities
May 6, 2025
Disconnection Notice! Villars, oligarchs, should have no place in public services or utilities
Bakit tuloy-tuloy ang pagtaas ng presyo ng bilihin sa bansa? Ano ang solusyon?
April 14, 2025
Kaliwa’t kanan ang pahayag ng gobyernong Marcos Jr na nilulutas nito ang inflation, pero walang nakikitang epekto hanggang ngayon. Ano nga ba ang nagtutulak ng mataas na presyo at paano ito sosolusyonan?
On World Health Day:
Big Pharma rules an ailing nation
April 7, 2025
Global health remains in the clutches of Big Pharma, which has detrimental effects not only on mortality, diseases and prevention but entirely on the right to health
Privatization has made health care more expensive
February 25, 2025
Related: The implications on the right to health and the people of issues raised in GR Nos 274778, 275405, and 276233
Not another PhilHealth mess, please
August 25, 2024
Why is the Marcos Jr government maneuvering to centralize PhilHealth’s robust funds when ordinary Filipinos – the PhilHealth members and sponsored indigents – are receiving less and less health services? This is unraveling to be just one of the many ironies in the Marcos Jr government’s optimistic portrayal of the national situation.
2019 midterm elections results: Harsher policies ahead
May 26, 2019
Administration-backed bets dominated the 2019 midterm elections especially in the Senate. The Duterte administration will certainly fast track its priority neoliberal policies as soon as the 18th Congress opens. It already used its super-majority in the 17th Congress to pass socioeconomic measures aggravating the country’s jobs crisis, poverty, and underdevelopment. More and harsher ones loom […]
