Senator Loren Legarda has filed a measure that will mandate the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation or PhilHealth to automatically enroll persons with disability (PWDs) in its health insurance program.
“Persons with disability have special healthcare needs and require more frequent visits to healthcare providers. Through this measure, we want to ensure that PWDs are covered by PhilHealth at no cost to them,” said Legarda.
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill seeking to create the Department of Housing and Urban Development (DHUD) which aims to address the country’s housing needs and other related issues through an efficient and holistic national shelter program.
“The Philippine housing sector is replete with enormous challenges, spanning the issues of ever-increasing need for affordable housing provisions, limited access to housing finance, the need for more sustainable housing solutions, and the need to relocate families and households to safer grounds on account of increasing threats of disasters,” Legarda stressed.
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a bill seeking to prohibit discrimination, profiling, violence and all forms of intolerance against persons based on ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, language and disability, amid the growing number of cases involving discriminatory acts in the Philippines.
Senator Loren Legarda today expressed her support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s Ten-Point Economic Agenda and said that she has filed several proposed measures that would complement the President’s plan of action.
Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Finance in the 16th Congress, welcomed the administration’s pronouncement that it will maintain current macroeconomic policies.
As a symbol of welcoming the new administration, Senator Loren Legarda’s outfit for President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address reflects simplicity and has cultural significance to Mindanao where the President hails from.
Legarda will wear a fuschia coat in silk with okir-inspired embroidery pattern. The okir is an indigenous design that is distinctly Maranao.
