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Bill: Healthcare Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partie Traditionnelle de Monarchiste
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 2447
Description[?]:
| The morass of socialised medicine is unacceptable in a free society such as Alduria and this obscenity must be struck down. The system of socialised medicine makes for poor care, overpriced services (a burden carried by all tax-payers), little to no innovation, and less efficient means of providing healthcare to the citizens of this great nation. We must return to a policy of non-intervention in the healthcare industry. |
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 entirely private.
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 does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:10:55, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Pragmatist Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | The citizens have a right to medical care. We will not vote to limit that right to the wealthy. |
| Date | 23:14:01, August 22, 2007 CET | From | Partie Traditionnelle de Monarchiste | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | If the free market is allowed to function, all can find healthcare within their price range. Competition lowers prices. Already, every citizen pays for healthcare that is inefficient and of low quality. We must allow the market to create efficiency, low prices, and quality or our healthcare is doomed to shambles. Furthermore, we must think of the future. What incentive is there is innovate in this system? How will we continue progressing in healthcare if it is stuck in the socialist cesspit |
| Date | 03:44:07, August 25, 2007 CET | From | Parti social-démocrate | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | Medical care should be accessible to even the poorest of citizens. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 53 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 281 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 91 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to prevent confusion by ensuring unofficial or outdated bills labelled as "Cultural Protocols" are removed from their nation page. |
| Random quote: "To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow." - William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches and Public Letters |