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Bill: Rational Medical Practice Act.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Adam Smith Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: October 2085
Description[?]:
| It is unnacceptable that a bunch of bureaucrats can decide what is and is not good treatment and acceptable care. This bill is to reeturn the control of medical treatment to the doctors who are trained at public expense for this. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Current: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:57:17, July 19, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Rational Medical Practice Act. |
| Message | We do not see the need to spend public money in regulating and restricting private clinics. If there is a competent public service, then to exist at all a private clinic has to be better. People do not pay for something that they can get without additional cost unless there is some differential to be gained. The only effect of the current law is to force an exodus of the best doctors to other countries where their talants are appreciated instead of supressed. It would be acceptable to require that all medical practicioners in activity in the nation act for a portiojn of their time in the public system. However they should be allowed to act privately as well if they so wish. |
| Date | 13:25:01, July 20, 2005 CET | From |  National People's Gang | To | Debating the Rational Medical Practice Act. |
| Message | Opposed - removing regulation from private clinics is a recipe for the return of quackery. We would favour a proposal which said "...ensure they treat their patients well and cause no harm" but that is not currently available. |
| Date | 20:49:21, July 20, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Rational Medical Practice Act. |
| Message | The day when a doctor is prevented from causes his patients harm by law is the day to leave the country. You would not be able to be treated for 90% of the illnesses and accidents that we suffer under that regulation. Most treatments for problems cause some other, less serious harm. At times it is quite severe (chemotherapy) in other cases it is localised and temporary (Reducing a dislocation) but they are harm anyway. As to quacks. We assume that the medical community is self regulating, even with respect to public health workers. Being a field for specialist knowledge, it is not possible for the civil service to regulate the area. As such, the regulation by the government is irrelevant in practice, it simply makes medical treatment more expensive. |
| Date | 21:41:28, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Rational Medical Practice Act. |
| Message | Supported. Would the proposed public system be reliant on tax dollars? |
| Date | 22:07:43, July 22, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Rational Medical Practice Act. |
| Message | There would be no change to the current public system, as such it is not a proposed system, it is the existing system. What this does is to allow doctors to practice privately if they wish to. |
| Date | 17:20:22, July 24, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Rational Medical Practice Act. |
| Message | "treatment" in the bill description |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 285 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 152 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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