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Postscript to a long-overdue legislation |
| Published: May 11, 2008, 10:28 pm |
| Tags: i report features, public health, congress watch, in the news, affordable medicines, bicameral conference committee, doha declaration, drug price regulatory board, generics act, pharmaceutical industry, philippines, trips agreement |
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FINALLY, Congress ratified the bicameral conference committee-approved draft of the long-awaited law that promises to ensure access to affordable, quality medicines by majority of poor Filipinos. The legislative measure, called the Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicines Act of 2008, was even billed as a Labor Day gift to workers, but none of that materialized as it awaits to this day the signature of the President for it to formally come into force. To be sure though, the bill’s approval has not been an easy one, attesting to the high-stakes political and economic interests involved in its crafting. A piece of legislation certified urgent by the Arroyo administration since 2001, the bill only came close to being enacted into law in the last three years, the last time being just before the 13th Congress adjourned in June 2007 with the House of Representatives failing to pass its version on third and final reading for a dubious lack of quorum. This time, it [ Full article ] |
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