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Bill: IP Health Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperialist Party
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: June 2380
Description[?]:
| As for the ability to sell food privately, I think there are a number of advantages to this kind of system. Customers benefit from greater choice that way, and lower prices through competition. Leaving things up to local governments could create a number of problems. Citizens from Firene may not be familiar with food standards in Lirona - which could say, allow for expired meat to be sold at a discount. The citizen from Firene will get more than a discount after eating expired meat. National food standards simply make sense. A public healthcare system has a number of problems - for one, there are waiting-lists, for another, public systems are less innovative than private ones. In the long run, we benefit more from cures than we do from low-cost service. I believe in the principle of helping the poor, which is why it strikes me as better to have a private healthcare system, but to pay the fees of those that can't afford healthcare. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: The licensing of food sale is left for local governments to decide.
Current: Food may be sold by licensed vendors only, and shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Proposed: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:40:09, March 25, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the IP Health Reform Act |
| Message | The second article is a catastrophe, and the sort of radical policy departure we were afraid the right might consider. |
| Date | 06:15:45, March 25, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the IP Health Reform Act |
| Message | What about the first one? |
| Date | 16:58:18, March 25, 2007 CET | From | Republican Party | To | Debating the IP Health Reform Act |
| Message | I will support this. I do think that health care should be private and people who cannot afford it then can apply for the state to pay for it. |
| Date | 08:29:05, March 26, 2007 CET | From | Imperialist Party | To | Debating the IP Health Reform Act |
| Message | Because of the controversy, this bill is just about opening up to private - regulated - food retailers, as opposed to the present hodgepodge of approaches. |
| Date | 20:35:14, March 26, 2007 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the IP Health Reform Act |
| Message | While we hold nothing against this move in general, we're more or less a Canton-rights party, favoring local, participatory democracy, so we'll cast a symbolic vote against. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 147 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 185 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 269 |
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