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Bill: Health Privatisation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Coburan Conservative 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: March 2450
Description[?]:
| People deserve the right to choose what kind of health care they're getting if they can afford it, but people still need basic care regardless of income. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: 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.
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: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Current: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:02:21, August 14, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | The current law is fine, this insane privatisation would lowe standards for everyone. |
| Date | 19:09:41, August 14, 2007 CET | From | Party for Individualism and Kitties | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | this also is too much for me. There should be a public one where all people are treated equally. |
| Date | 01:29:15, August 15, 2007 CET | From | Revolucia Partio de Koburo | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | I see no reason for this - if people want private care they can already get it, |
| Date | 18:06:32, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Conservative Party | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | I have made this bill more moderate, and here it is. I'd actually forgotten about this, it's kind of old. |
| Date | 18:21:24, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Party for Individualism and Kitties | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | and my opinion hasn't changed. |
| Date | 19:01:11, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | This is an extremist bill from an exttemist party. |
| Date | 19:13:27, September 02, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Conservative Party | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | Extremist? You're joking. |
| Date | 14:32:12, September 03, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Health Privatisation Act |
| Message | No, I think most of the moderate parties in cobura and the moderate voeters would agree this position is an extremist one, compared with the current moderate law. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 91 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 409 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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