public health system
IBON Executive Director on govt’s heightened alert levels and COVID strategy shift
January 12, 2022
IBON Executive Director on gov’t COVID strategy shift
PhilHealth’s slow COVID claims processing
August 12, 2021
DOH wasn’t just underspending or spending wastefully — PhilHealth has also been helping too few and too slowly. Philhealth only paid for a fraction of 17.4 million COVID tests and over 100,000 hospitalizations since last year.
Big stimulus bill prioritizing aid more urgent than easing foreign restrictions–IBON
April 18, 2021
Every additional COVID-19 response measure over the meager amounts allotted by the administration will help the country get out of this crisis faster, whereas bills expanding foreign businesses’ profit-making will not be of any help at all.
2021 Yearstarter: Solving the pandemic crisis
February 21, 2021
The Philippines has the worst performing economy in ASEAN and is set to have the worst performing to as far away as South Asia and the rest of East Asia
Duterte govt: Just Can’t Debt Enough
October 4, 2020
BY SONNY AFRICA
The debt crisis is already upon us – just not the kind that the economic managers and creditors are worried about where debt payments to lenders are interrupted.