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                    [Title] => Caretaker President - GOTCHA  by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => Ask any businessman how long he thinks it would take to put the economy back on track, and he’d say one year, even two. Prod him again why it would take that long, and he’d first say that’s the way things go. But then he’d quickly add, if only GMA were a little bolder…


Businessmen are a conservative lot. Too many laws for too little capital make them so. Yet when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared during her inaugural that she just wants to be a good President, not only Leftists but businessmen, too, were disappointed. [DatePublished] => 2001-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102540 [Title] => Appointments and disappointments - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc [Summary] => Five incidents in the past two weeks partly defined President GMA’s style of selecting officials:
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What ever happened to government's promise to bring down prices of medicines? Health workers are asking the question since the issue turned out to be another case of ningas cogon. It caught fire last Nov. when the health department said it would again push for generic over branded drugs. But that was all. Filipinos still can't afford medicines for their acute illnesses. Poor folk don't bother to see their doctors anymore, knowing they'll just be prescribed drugs they can't buy anyway.

The finance department vowed to study tax relief for drugs. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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Businessmen are a conservative lot. Too many laws for too little capital make them so. Yet when Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared during her inaugural that she just wants to be a good President, not only Leftists but businessmen, too, were disappointed. [DatePublished] => 2001-03-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 102540 [Title] => Appointments and disappointments - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc [Summary] => Five incidents in the past two weeks partly defined President GMA’s style of selecting officials:
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What ever happened to government's promise to bring down prices of medicines? Health workers are asking the question since the issue turned out to be another case of ningas cogon. It caught fire last Nov. when the health department said it would again push for generic over branded drugs. But that was all. Filipinos still can't afford medicines for their acute illnesses. Poor folk don't bother to see their doctors anymore, knowing they'll just be prescribed drugs they can't buy anyway.

The finance department vowed to study tax relief for drugs. [DatePublished] => 2000-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )

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