Senior Citizen Party-list Representative Milagros Aquino-Magsaysay |
By Mike Navarro
LALA,
Lanao del Norte (June 16, 2018) - SENIOR Citizen Lawmaker Rep. Milagros
Aquino-Magsaysay pleads with Duterte’s government to correct the injustice.
"Dahil
sa patuloy na ambag ng mga senior citizen sa ating lipunan at yamang bilang na
ang mga taon na nalalabi sa aming buhay, hiling namin ang agarang aksyon para
matiyak ang kumpleto at tuluy-tuloy na implementasyon ng Mandatory PhilHealth
Coverage for Senior Citizens Act (Republic Act-10645)," Congresswoman Aquino-Magsaysay
said.
She
added that "As Senior Citizen Party-list Representative, I appeal to
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to rectify the injustice committed against us.
The President is also a senior citizen. The injustice was also done unto him."
She
also ask the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to do in the 2019 budget
that they will soon propose to Congress to restore the amount diverted from the
senior citizen, the budget that was supposed to cover many more senior citizens
than what PhilHealth had reported.
Only
2.8 million of senior citizens were covered by the budget allocation out of the
6.2 million registered senior citizen members in the National Health Insurance
Program in all over the country.
They
plead with the Duterte administration to replace in the 2019 budget all the
funds that were originally intended for SC but did not directly benefit the SC
patients. That is Php20-billion just from 2016 and billions more from 2014 and
2015.
"Sa
isang sektor ng lipunan na 4 sa 10 ang may malubhang sakit o kapansanan, labis
ang pangangailangan ng ating mga nakatatanda para sa kasiguraduhan sa
kalusugan. Malaki po sana ang mabuting epekto ng pagpasa ng Mandatory
PhilHealth Coverage for Senior Citizens Act, ngunit apat na taon na po ang
nakakalipas ay hindi pa po ito tuluyang napapakinabangan ng lahat ng ating
senior citizens. Huwag naman po sana umabot na mamatay na lamang sa sakit ang
ating mga nakatatanda dahil sa maling paggamit ng mga pondo para sa programang
ito. Panahon na po para itama ang mali"the Congresswoman said. (With PR
from the office of Cong. Magsaysay)
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