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Bill: Provision for a National Health Service
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free People's 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: April 2402
Description[?]:
| Our citizens look to those like ourselves to provide them with the basic needs of life. We *must* have a National Health Service for the benefit of the Indrali people. These are the people who have made our movements a success, and yet we neglect them. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
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 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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Current: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Proposed: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:22:07, May 08, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party of Indrala | To | Debating the Provision for a National Health Service |
| Message | The adjective is "Indralan". |
| Date | 22:25:40, May 08, 2007 CET | From | Populist Islamic Workers' League | To | Debating the Provision for a National Health Service |
| Message | We support this. |
| Date | 00:29:51, May 09, 2007 CET | From | All-Indrala National League | To | Debating the Provision for a National Health Service |
| Message | We are opposed to all but article 3. On article 1 we feel the state should subsidise the care of the poorer members of society but the proposal goes to far with state interference, we feel that the current Pharmaceutical drugs policy (article 2) is fine. |
| Date | 06:03:05, May 09, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Initiative | To | Debating the Provision for a National Health Service |
| Message | Two tier health care is a genuinely bad idea. Either all or nothing, anything else compromises inefficiency and created inequality. We prefer private health care, as we believe that charities are better suited to assisting the poor than the government. If the government steps in, charities dry up, as the charities are 1) perceived as useless to the public because the government provides this service (inefficiently) and 2) not funded, because people no longer have disposable income to spend on whatever they believe in. The government would tax people to support this bill. Taxing is making something mandatory, even if you don't believe in it. This is oppressive. People should support the poor if they want to, and not because they are forced to. Thus we would oppose any changes to the current system. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 297 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 452 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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