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Bill: Opportunities in Healthcare
Details
Submitted by[?]: HaLeumit Tikvah
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: September 2449
Description[?]:
| Private business are more efficient and therefore more successful than Nationalised ones. Given this, shoudn't we implement an entirely private healthcare for the good of the nation? Afterall, we are essentially destroying many of our citizens chance at becoming a success by maintaining a monopoly. We understand that many parties are concerned about the price of healthcare forcing our poorer citizens to go without, so we therefore also propose they have their bills paid for by the state. |
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:07:28, August 28, 2007 CET | From |  Ma'avak | To | Debating the Opportunities in Healthcare |
| Message | "I am afraid we cannot support this, profit motivation will result in private businesses cutting costs and safety checks to provide a lower quality of healthcare. Additionally people on higher incomes will be able to afford more expensive operations or generally more operations meaning the lower middle classes and even upper lower classes will lose out. Finally doctors, knowing that their income is dependent on operations, vaccinations or surgeries completed will have the incentive to recommend unnecessary procedures to citizens creating an inefficient use of resources. This bill will result in a lower quality service, greater inequality and not to mention the numerous job cuts that will likely occur. We at Aymam value the health and well being of evey Beiteynuese man, woman and child. For our homeland to remain secure and safe all must be in a fit condition to work, contribute or if the case presents itself, fight." -- Naczelnik Nasi Efraim Lezeyn |
| Date | 21:21:30, August 28, 2007 CET | From | Am Echad, Pays Libre | To | Debating the Opportunities in Healthcare |
| Message | free health care is best for families! God would want free health care! |
| Date | 22:10:39, August 28, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Voice of Reason Party | To | Debating the Opportunities in Healthcare |
| Message | "Public health care is good health care. It's good for our people. And what's good for the people is good for the economy. And what is good for our people, is good for our economy. It is, together with a strong public education system, the best investment any society can make." - Jeremiah Landau |
| Date | 20:45:58, August 31, 2007 CET | From | HaLeumit Tikvah | To | Debating the Opportunities in Healthcare |
| Message | "Public health care is not always good health care. It is over bureaucratic, and because of a perception of job security leads to employees being lazy. Basically, its very inefficient. It is not in private industries interests to cut corners. That leads to lawsuits, bad press, and any hospital that practised this would soon find itself out of business. People on low incomes will be able to afford the same operations as rich people, since we will pay for them. The health budget, which currently funds the entire system, should be enough to fund the entire lower class as well as the lower middle class, so they will not go without vital surgery through lack of funds. Doctors are not some cynical, money-grabbing class as Aymam suggests. While some may try to convince patients to get extra surgery, since it goes against health insurance industries interests to pay out for needless surgery, they will likely keep an eye out and encourage prosecution of doctors who suggest needless surgery. Job cuts will not occur- the nation will still require the same amount of healthcare as before, it will simply be private instead of public jobs." -David Frankin |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 43 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 197 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: When your party holds the foreign affairs department, you can create new treaties. However, before writing anything new, it is a good idea to search for existing treaties which already accomplish what you desire. |
| Random quote: "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary." - Mahatma Gandhi |