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Bill: Pharmaceuticals Subsidy Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Ikradon
Status[?]: defeated
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: April 2364
Description[?]:
| To reform subsidies given to producers and consumers of pharmaceuticals. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government does not subsidize research and development of prescription drugs but regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Current: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:47:30, February 20, 2007 CET | From |  New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Pharmaceuticals Subsidy Reform Act |
| Message | This labelling of every single change "reform" is getting quite laughable but anyway - what would be gained from this? These are necessities and we have to support and encourage medical research. It would be quite foolish to fall behind other nations in research and development. |
| Date | 11:58:28, February 21, 2007 CET | From | Socialist Workers Union | To | Debating the Pharmaceuticals Subsidy Reform Act |
| Message | So the LPI are saying 'Middle Class? Ill? Well we'll introduce reforms to make you pay until you are in the poor house' by scrapping the price regulations and then making them pay for their medicines.. |
| Date | 22:07:52, February 21, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Ikradon | To | Debating the Pharmaceuticals Subsidy Reform Act |
| Message | The reintroduction of a functioning price system shall not impoverish anybody, although it may discourge reckless overconsumption of subsidised resources or the need of queue-based rationing. |
| Date | 01:34:45, February 22, 2007 CET | From | New Democratic Party | To | Debating the Pharmaceuticals Subsidy Reform Act |
| Message | Yes, sick people, and especially those which chronic illnesses, are indeed recklessly overconsuming medicines because they're free. If only we made them pay, they'd soon stop taking their medication... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 191 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 338 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 70 |
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| Random quote: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire |