The Aquino Health Agenda: Achieving Universal Health Care for All Filipinos
The Aquino Health Agenda: Achieving Universal Health Care for All Filipinos Department of Health (Philippines) Administrative Order No. 2010-0036, 16 December 2010.
Reasonable Doubt is like “Tinga”
I agree with my Brod JR Dela Cruz in observing that Lejano v. People (G.R. No. 176389, December 14, 2010) that decided the Vizconde massacre case effectively compared reasonable doubt to detritus in between teeth, better known and appreciated in the vernacular as “tinga”. Said the Court: In our criminal justice system, what is important [...]
How the Law Looks at the History of Health Care
This excerpt from Professional Services v. Agana (G.R. No. 126297) is telling of how Philippine Law (as symbolized by our Supreme Court which decided the case) views the history of health care: Until the mid-nineteenth century, hospitals were generally charitable institutions, providing medical services to the lowest classes of society, without regard for a patient’s [...]
