"Cheaper" Medicines Bill

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I am starting this discussion because my blood literally boiled when I read another mylotter post that GMA spend $20,000 on dinner while she was in NY. As we filipinoes may have read or watched in the news, GMA has bragged about the medicines which will be sold at half of their original selling price. This was one of her so-called "acheivements". Among these medicines she claimed that those that can help the most are the medicines for cancer patients. My mother is a cancer patient and when I bought her medicines the other day and saw the list of medicines that have been discounted, not even one of her medications are in the list. And I spent P6000 for her medicines, this is just for her diabetes and high cholesterol meds. The diabetes and high cholesterol meds that are to be sold at half price are brands that I have not even heard of. So, while our dear president is spending a million pesos a night, filipinos like us who sweat our lives off paying taxes so that these government officials can steal, we also die from not being able to afford medicines. My mothers' chemotherapy session costs P200,000 per session. My mother has even decided to stop her chemo because our family can no longer afford it. And then I read GMA is dining at a cost of a million pesos for one night.