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Bill: Pharmaceutical Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Plutocratic Utopian Front
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: March 2435
Description[?]:
| Great advances in medicine have made life longer and more enjoyable for many around the world. In Hulstria Gao-Soto, however, current politicians have denied these advances to their people. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
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 pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:20:12, July 24, 2007 CET | From |  Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | We are against article 2. This calls for abuse of the law, and will never be effective. |
| Date | 22:11:32, July 24, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | We are opposed to 2 as we are opposed to the legalisation of any narcotic which is most definitely harmful to users. We are opposed to 1 and 3 as the distortions to the market will help no one and only increase inefficiency and inflate costs. |
| Date | 01:06:17, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Front | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | We support this bill outright. There is no sound scientific evidence whatsoever to support the notion that cannabis is inherently harmful to users. |
| Date | 01:14:44, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | Its addictive, its unhealthy, it`s a burden for relatives. People can not control themselves when they are addicted. And people will get addicted. Why do we need it, there are other sedative medications. Let us not chose for canabis, with all its risks. |
| Date | 03:09:05, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Plutocratic Utopian Front | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | We are in favor of the "market distortions" you speak of if you mean more medical research and availability of preventitive medicines. A failing of the free market is the setting too high a discount rate on future benefits. With the ai of a far sighted government both society and the economy can benefit from a healther, longer lived citizenry. |
| Date | 03:10:19, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Plutocratic Utopian Front | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | Regarding cannabis, it will be treated as a prescription medicine. Some studies have shown an ability to reduce pain and elevate mood. We feel that if a doctor finds its use advisable to a patient we should not stand in the way. |
| Date | 11:02:13, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | If there is profit to be made on pharmacuticals then people will produce them and they willl try to produce the best medicines at the lowest cost possible to make the most profit. This bill removes those incentives and will lead to inneficiency and bad coporate practice. If anything it will destroy this nation's pharm industry by making it uncompetitive on the world stage. |
| Date | 15:44:02, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Plutocratic Utopian Front | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | There will always be proft for a drug company which choses to keep its products just potent enough to be helpful, without totally curing the ailment it is designed to treat. While this is an excellent business model I hope we can all agree that it is unethical. Capital can be profitably invested in other areas, so that even if more effective drugs become available and shrink the market for these products society can still prosper. In general healthier people are better consumers. I hope the "capitalists" in this country will realize this and take a more forward thinking position. |
| Date | 17:33:55, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Gao-Showa Imperial Party | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Bill |
| Message | if pharmecutical companies in this nationa are selling inferior product hospitals will buy from foreign firms instead, I'd hardly call it a winning business model. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 406 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 94 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Real life-life nationalities, cultures or ethnicities should not be referenced in Particracy (eg. "German"). |
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