Health
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| Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
“The State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensive approach to health development which shall endeavor to make essential goods, health and other social services available to all the people at affordable cost. There shall be priority for the needs of the underprivileged sick, elderly, disabled, women and children. The State shall endeavor to provide free medical care to paupers.” (Philippine Constitution, Article XIII, Section 11)
The mind is perplexed. The feeling is strange. Questions are understandable and in order. Is the above remarkable and impressive pronouncement really a provision of the Philippine Constitution written for and supposedly observed in this country? Is the same moving and defining statement actually a stipulation of the fundamental law of the Philippines? Or is it simply a misprint and wherefore merely a misplaced citation lifted from another constitution of another nation in another continent?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111117com7.html
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