Press Release
June 8, 2007

STATEMENT OF SENATOR MAR ROXAS ON THE HOUSEs
FAILURE TO PASS THE CHEAPER MEDICINES BILL

The failure of the House to pass their version of the Cheaper Medicines Bill doomed its expected passage. It had nothing to do with any claimed conflict between the Senate version that we passed and the House version that they DID NOT PASS.

It is ridiculous for some congressmen, whose House failed the Filipino people, to argue about the merits about a law which THEIR negligence and lack of will doomed to non-passage.

It is an insult to Filipino patients, suffering from the heavy burden of high cost of medicines for their congressmen to argue that their version which they DID NOT PASS could lower the prices more than the version that the Senate actually passed.

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