Despite being passed by Congress in record time, the bill seeking to create the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) continues to be mired in controversy that simply won’t go away. Professors and lecturers from the University of the Philippines School of Economics made a last-ditch appeal last week to President Marcos for him to seriously reconsider the measure that, they argue, “violates fundamental principles of economics and finance.” Hopefully, many of the issues raised would be
Whenever I talk to people around the country about the health care system and what they think of our doctors, one of the chief complaints I receive is that of the long hours spent waiting to see the physician despite their clearly stated clinic hours. With the doctor arriving late and so many patients waiting, “we ended up seeing the doctor only after X number of hours and even then, the whole consult lasted just a few minutes,” people tell me. As a medical doctor myself (albeit a nonpracticing one), I know enough of the medical profession to see what’s happening
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