KuriMar Roxas grabs credit on the Cheaper Medicine Law

What’s up with LP? If they’re not stealing designs or claiming credits for the EDSA revolution, they’re misleading people in their Ads. Yes, that’s right! Iloilo Vice Governor Rolex Suplico, the original author of the Cheaper Medicine Law is crying foul over the claim of KuriMar Roxas. The recent Adverts of KuriMar says that he authored the Cheaper Medicine Law.


Here’s the report that I captured from a news report:

According to another Ilonggo legislator Ferjenel Biron, “Roxas was instrumental to blocking the proposed Drug Price Regulatory Board that could have brought down the prices of medicine by as much as 80 percent. He (KuriMar Roxas) lied because he claims something that he even opposed vigorously in all our four bicameral conference committee meetings. He didn’t want any form of regulation. All he wanted was parallel importation”.

Biron brought documents to show the difference between the House version and the Senate version of the law, which was “castrated” by KuriMar Roxas himself. He killed the heart and soul of the bill that Rolex Suplico authored. He castrated it but now he’s saying that he was the author of the cheaper medicine law.

KuriMar wanted an amendment to IPR and a deregulated pharmaceutical industry wherein the prices of the commodity are determined by the market. His oppositions are partly to soften the blows for the pharmaceutical industry.

According to Suplico, “If only Roxas acceded to their bill, the exorbitant prices of drugs could have been down by as much as 80 to 90 percent, because a multi-sectoral drug price regulatory board would have carried out uniform, reasonable rates for all types of medicine.”

The board would have included the health secretary, the trade secretary, the Food and Drug Administration (formerly BFAD), a representative from a consumer group, from PhilHealth, faculty from health and science and one from academe.