budget
PhilHealth Zero Subsidy: Reflection of Government Neglect
December 23, 2024
Abruptly defunding the insurance agency will not address the growing problems of health financing, especially without concrete steps from the government to resolve them.
2025 BBM: Budget Badly Made
December 17, 2024
The government easily decides on austerity for the poor, yet just as easily decides to give huge budgets for pork and patronage, infrastructure for the rich, and even sacred debt service.
Marcos Jr administration’s 2025 budget priorities
October 28, 2024
2025 Budget Cuts and Increases
October 28, 2024
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.
2025 national budget is agenda of austerity for the many, prosperity for a few- IBON
August 2, 2024
The Marcos Jr administration tries to project that it is prioritizing and bringing prosperity to Filipinos, but the proposed 2025 national budget shows instead that it is still putting the wealthy and big business first.
IBON Foundation statement for meeting with UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change, Mr. Ian Fry
November 7, 2023
There is an underlying resistance by the Marcos Jr administration to the fundamental changes in strategy and approach required to genuinely address the triple crisis faced by the Filipino people – environmental distress, chronic poverty and inequality, and economic underdevelopment.
2024 Budget Cuts and Increases From 2023
October 3, 2023
Debt servicing, infrastructure and defense are getting big increases in the 2024 budget. But much-needed service-oriented areas such as education, social work, labor and health are either given negligible increases or defunded.
Under the knife: the 2024 health budget
September 8, 2023
FEATURE
The 2024 proposed health budget reflects the Marcos Jr administration’s utter neglect of public health.
