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Ping Lacson Pushes Barangay-Level Health Care System in PH

STA. ROSA CITY, Laguna – Former Sen. Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson on Saturday pushed for the full and proper implementation of the Universal Health Care Act, so the Philippines can have a barangay-level health care system that can at least approximate the efficient health care system in Cuba.

Lacson said this can be done by ensuring the proper funding of the UHC Act, such that it will cover all Filipinos in all barangays – even as he said the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) may not be able to give 100 percent free health benefits to Filipinos.

“You know me as a watchdog of the budget. I scrutinize it to help make sure that the laws we pass like the UHC, Free Tertiary Education Act, and other laws passed by Congress do not get paralyzed due to lack of funding,” he said in Filipino at the press conference of the Alyansa para sa Bagong Pilipinas senatorial slate here.

“We want to make sure the UHC Act covers all barangays. When we are stuck at the low end, we are just having pilot programs in selected barangays. But when we go to full implementation, we cover all barangays,” he added.

Related: Ping Lacson, Nais ang Barangay Level Health Care System

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Speech at the San Pedro Calungsod Medical Center’s Thanksgiving Night

At the outset, allow me to confess – I never imagined that being in a room full of doctors would be this pleasant and comforting. Because normally, in most scenarios where one is surrounded by all sorts of medical professionals, kakabahan ka na!

Kidding aside, I feel fortunate today, not only because I am surrounded by hardworking doctors, but even more so because around me are the best ones from the San Pedro Calungsod Medical Center – the very hospital I had the honor of being one of the original founders, and which I have supported since its founding a decade ago.

Truly, a lot has transpired since the day the idea of establishing an additional medical facility in the urban municipality of Kawit, Cavite was first conceived.

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Hope for Filipino Youths: Lacson to Ensure Funding for Education, Health

Ensuring enough funding for education and health will be one of senatorial aspirant Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson’s priorities should he earn a new mandate in the Senate.

Lacson said this can be done by tracking down less useful and questionable appropriations in the budget, and realigning them to fund these much-needed programs.

“Such appropriations can be put to good use by becoming seed money. In 2016, I questioned an P8.3-billion allocation involving the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s budget for 2017. I introduced an amendment to remove it. During our caucus in the Senate, we agreed to put the amount in the free tertiary education measure that we knew was about to become a law,” he said.

Related: Pag-Asa para sa Kabataang Pilipino: Lacson, Titiyakin ang Pondo para sa Edukasyon, Kalusugan

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On the Philippines’ Travel Ban to Taiwan

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Just like the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement, the Philippine government’s travel ban to Taiwan is a policy decision implemented by the executive department which may not necessarily be correct, health-wise and politically.

Politically, it seems that the China lobby has become a very powerful force under this administration. Only time will tell if this major shift in the country’s foreign policy will benefit our people in the medium and long term – even as in the immediate term, the travel ban may already have potentially dire consequences for our Filipino workers there.

We elected a President who does not appear to give much importance to counsels and consultations with sectors that could very well help him arrive at well-informed decisions. While I do not question his sincerity in trying to solve the problems besetting our country since the time the millennials of the world were not even born, I still hope he can leave his own legacy worth remembering.

Having said that, I continue to support his leadership but I will not stop calling him out on major decisions which I don’t think serve the best interest of our country and people.

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‘Unity of Command’: At the Senate Hearing on the 2019-nCoV Situation

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At the Senate hearing on the 2019-nCoV situation, Sen. Lacson emphasized the principle of unity of command in addressing the problem, with the Department of Health taking charge because “this is a health issue.”

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