LOBBY AT WORK: Too many Filipinos suffer or die just because they cannot afford to buy good medicine. Senate Bill No. 1658 seeking to provide quality and affordable drugs to the public has been sponsored by Sen. Mar Roxas to correct that.The bill is the resurrection of a similar Roxas measure approved by the Senate in the last Congress — but dribbled to death by the House of Representatives until adjournment overtook it.
Its demise in the House had been traced to an expensive lobby by drug companies, some of them multinationals.
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