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Bill: Health Care Socialization
Details
Submitted by[?]: Tukarali Communist 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: January 2442
Description[?]:
| Health care is something that should be viewed as a right in our nation, not as something that changes availability based on financial status. As it is, the poor are provided for, but there are still two tiers of healthcare: one for the very wealth, and one for those who have limited means. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
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 pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:39:07, August 09, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Party of Tukarali | To | Debating the Health Care Socialization |
| Message | We can't support further socialization. We'd like to see much less government as it is. |
| Date | 15:03:30, August 10, 2007 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Health Care Socialization |
| Message | We oppose. As much as I admire the goal you're trying to abtain, we don't believe this is the good way to obtain it. On the contrary, if you have a small number of private clinics, they will attract rich patients, have the money to attract good doctors, while the public hostpitals, funded by public money will degenerate into an overcrowded shelter with a lack of doctors. This will create the exact two tier system you want to compete. Just let them go to any hospital, let the doctors do their job, and we'll fund back the expenses of people with low income. That way is much more efficient. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 165 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 311 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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