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Bill: Better Health Care
Details
Submitted by[?]: Endralonian People's Movement
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: May 2464
Description[?]:
| The government has to be responsible for ensuring that health care is acessible to all and not only to those who have money. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Current: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Proposed: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Current: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Proposed: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:31:49, October 01, 2007 CET | From |  Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Better Health Care |
| Message | Absolutely not, robbing the rich to give to the poor is immoral. |
| Date | 13:21:45, October 01, 2007 CET | From | Social Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Better Health Care |
| Message | Leaving the poor to die from preventable diseases while the rich squander their money, is in my opinion even more immoral |
| Date | 13:31:28, October 01, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Better Health Care |
| Message | For the rich to squander their money and not help the less fortunate is immoral indeed, but in no way does stealing from the rich correct this and make it moral. The end does not justify the means. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 232 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 261 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 7 |
| Random fact: Don't vote yes on a cabinet coalition that doesn't give you the power that you deserve. |
| Random quote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken |