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Volume VII, No. 259
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By Antonio L. Colina IV, MindaNews
HE resumption of peace talks between the government and the National Democratic Front will enable both parties to thresh out substantive issues and deal with complaints and demands, Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison said. In a statement Wednesday, Sison said that through the talks the two sides can achieve “substantial success” and present their conflicting positions and achieve solutions to problems on mutually acceptable grounds. “Without a formal meeting of the panels, there can only be an acrimonious public exchange of complaints and demands, which appear
or sound like the preconditions prohibited by The Hague Joint Declaration,” he added. Sison said the framework agreement requires that neither side shall impose preconditions that negate the character and purpose of peace negotiations. “As a matter of course, the two panels shall reaffirm all the existing agree-
ments by way of ending the previous termination of the peace negotiations. It logically follows that the two panels shall cooperate in doing away with the obstacles and hindrances to the agreements and to the entire peace process,” he said. Both parties were supposed to discuss the Comprehensive Agreement on
Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) and Comprehensive Agreement on Political and Constitutional Reforms (CAPCR) during the fifth round of talks on November 25 to 27 last year. But it was aborted when Duterte, reacting to a series of attacks by the New People’s Army, issued Presidential Proclamation NDF chief political consultant Jose Ma. Sison. Photo See PEACE, page 11
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Philhealth urged to include check up, lab cost in coverage By JOE PALABAO and DAHLIA BENEMERITO MDN-Bukidnon Bureau
BUKIDNON--Pending the passage of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) bill, Senator Sonny Angara called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to expand its primary care package to include preventive and promotive health services, such as executive checkup and laboratory test. “This is a first step while the deliberation on the UHC bill is still ongoing,” Angara told reporters during a press conference in Malaybalay City recently. The senator recently filed Senate Bill No. 1673, entitled “An act of providing for a universal health coverage for Filipinos and appropriating funds therefore.” The measure seeks to
increase Philhealth coverage to 100 percent of the country’s population, and expand the benefits and services ordinarily available under the current National Health Insurance Program (NHIP). Under the bill, the NHIP will be strengthened and renamed as the National Health Security Program, wherein the Filipinos will be automatically covered. At present, said Angara, PhilHealth’s primary care package only includes standard health checkups and medicines for 10 common conditions, including asthma, pneumonia, diabetes mellitus and hypertension. “Filipino families still bear the brunt of healthcare in the Philippines,” Angara said, citing a study by the Philippines Statistics Authority showing See coverage, page 11
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