PhilHealth—probably taking seriously its stature as the national health insurance agency—calls the monthly dues that are remitted to it “premium contributions.”
Maybe, PhilHealth is simply...
We were so engrossed in analyzing every improbable promise and black propaganda accusation by and against every presidential candidate that we failed to examine...
Social insurance agencies—like the Social Security System —require prior payment of contributions before they give out benefits to their beneficiaries. Welfare institutions, on the...
My senior citizen friends and I—and even those who didn’t vote for presumptive President Digong Duterte—anxiously awaited the announcement of his priority plans for...
We have always believed that Mayor Digong Duterte was presidential material, and he showed this immediately after casting his vote in late Monday afternoon...
After campaigning desperately and bitterly in the past three months—or maybe, six years—it is time for our feuding presidential candidates and their followers to...
The two presidential debates in Cagayan de Oro and Cebu provided leading candidates Mayor Digong Duterte and Senator Grace Poe the opportunity to commit...
As of today—less than a month before this year’s observance of Labor Day—our laborers and their leaders aren’t telegraphing any of their demands unlike...
We senior citizens are old enough to know that all incumbent administrations use our social protection programs in bribing indirectly our electorate to vote...
We have heard Mayor Rodrigo Duterte threaten, in several occasions, that if he is elected president, he would abolish the Social Security System because...
