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    The document discusses the special powers granted to President Duterte through the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing emergency financial assistance, covering medical expenses, and temporarily taking over private hospitals and transportation. It analyzes whether these powers were used responsibly during the crisis.

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    The document discusses the special powers granted to President Duterte through the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing emergency financial assistance, covering medical expenses, and temporarily taking over private hospitals and transportation. It analyzes whether these powers were used responsibly during the crisis.

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    The document discusses the special powers granted to President Duterte through the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing emergency financial assistance, covering medical expenses, and temporarily taking over private hospitals and transportation. It analyzes whether these powers were used responsibly during the crisis.

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    The document discusses the special powers granted to President Duterte through the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including providing emergency financial assistance, covering medical expenses, and temporarily taking over private hospitals and transportation. It analyzes whether these powers were used responsibly during the crisis.

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    Performance Task: Position Paper on the Use of President Duterte’s

    Learning Target: To analyze how the special powers of President Duterte was

    used during the pandemic.

    Prompt Question: Do you believe that the special powers of President Duterte,

    granted to him through the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act or Republic Act 11469,

    was used responsibly during this pandemic?

    The Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, or Republic Act No. 11469, was signed into law

    by President Rodrigo Duterte on March 26, 2020, following the President's appeal to

    Congress for emergency powers to fight the COVID-19 epidemic. The bill gave the

    President the authority to impose temporary emergency measures in response to the

    pandemic's crisis. The legislation requires patients to be isolated and treated

    immediately, and the expense of such treatment for COVID-19 patients is paid by the

    Philippine Health Insurance Corporation's National Health Insurance Program

    (PhilHealth). The covid pandemic is posing significant challenges to the Philippines.

    We are assisting the most vulnerable children, particularly girls and young women,

    who are affected by this catastrophe. Many individuals have lost their employment

    and livelihoods as the number of positives in COVID 19 has increased.

    Duterte is granted 30 powers in the final form of the legislation passed by the

    Senate and ratified by the House of Representatives. Among the provisions of the

    bill is the ability to provide P5,000 to P8,000 in emergency financial assistance to 18

    million low-income families, based on the region's minimum wage. In addition, the

    legislation guarantees that health professionals get a specific risk allowance in


    Name: CRISTINE JOY TINDAN Grade/Score:

    Year and Section: 12- HEZEKIAH Date: 02/09/21

    Subject: POLGOV Teacher: Mr. Jefferson P. De Jesus

    HOLY ANGEL UNIVERSITY

    Basic Education Department

    #1 Holy Angel Avenue, Sto. Rosario, Angeles City

    addition to their normal hazard pay. It also instructs the Philippine Health Insurance

    Corporation (PhilHealth) to cover any medical expenses incurred by personnel

    exposed to the coronavirus during the emergency. The law also requires that

    P100,000 be awarded to public and private health professionals who suffer serious

    coronavirus illness (COVID-19). Families of health professionals who died from

    COVID-19 in the course of duty would be awarded P1 million retrospectively.

    The authorities specified in the Bayanihan Heal as One Act are based on Article

    VI, Section 23 (2) of the Philippine Constitution. This clause empowers Congress to

    adopt legislation enabling the President "to employ powers necessary and suitable to

    carry out a stated national policy" "in times of war or other a state of emergency.”

    The law gives Duterte the authority to take over private medical institutions as well

    as public transportation. According to Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, the

    provision was merely intended to provide Duterte "standby power." Section 17 of

    Article XII of the Constitution served as the foundation for this., which empowers the

    State "during the emergency and on fair terms established by it, to temporarily take

    over or direct the operation of any privately held public utility or company impacted
    with public interest." Bayanihan to Heal as One Act would "authorize the President to

    utilize powers necessary to carry out immediate steps to meet the present national

    emergency pertaining to COVID-19."

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