Roxas is Drug Rirms’ Stooge

A drunk Mar Roxas was seen partying hard with executives of multinational drug firms right after the signing into law of his watered-down Cheaper Medicine Bill. Booze flowed and so did cheap women and, to Mar’s obvious delight, boy toys. “Suckers!” one in Mar’s group of drug execs shouted above the noise.

The fact is that Mar Roxas is guilty as hell in serving as a lackey of drug firms, which had mounted a multi-billion-peso lobby to kill Rep. Janette Guarin’s version of the law. If you remember, Congressman Teddy Boy Locsin cursed and nearly smacked the lobbyists of these drug firms who had the temerity to pass him a note on what questions to ask during a congressional hearing.

The lobbyist must have taken Locsin for Mar Roxas and paid dearly for it. Locsin is not a paid hack, but Mar? There’s no doubt about it.

Had Guarin’s version been passed, the prices of all medicines in the country would have been lowered by at least 50 percent, the prevailing overprice being rammed down our throats by the drug firm masters of Mar Roxas.

But no thanks to Mar Roxas, drug firms are only “requested” to lower prices in only 21 of the thousands of drug types they sell in the Philippines.

Never forget that it was Mar Roxas who killed that most important provision in Guarin’s version, which would have established a Drug Price Regulatory Board that would have set drug price limits on all, I repeat, all kinds of medicines.

Shame on Mar Roxas, who had also served the interest of other multinational firms in his stint at the Department of Trade and Industry, whereby he stymied local businesses that poised a threat to his foreigner bosses.

And this guy is running for vice president?! We’re f..ked!