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Bill: Rational Health Care Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front
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: August 2468
Description[?]:
Since there is a vast capitalist majority we'll try to push things towards a sensible center. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Food and beverage labeling regulations.
Old value:: There are no laws concerning food and beverage labeling.
Current: Companies are encouraged by the government to label food and beverage products.
Proposed: Companies are required to label food and beverage products somewhere on the package.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Food safety policy.
Old value:: There are no food standards provisions.
Current: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Proposed: The government introduces, and actively enforces, food standards provisions.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Licensing of food sales.
Old value:: The sale of food is unregulated.
Current: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Proposed: Anyone may sell food, but shelf lives of foods are enforced.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: There are no set health and safety regulations for industry.
Current: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Proposed: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning organ donations.
Old value:: The government enforces no regulation whatsoever.
Current: Organ donations are legal with personal consent.
Proposed: Organ donations are legal with personal consent.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The funding of sports clubs.
Old value:: The government does not fund sports clubs; only private ones are allowed.
Current: The government funds some sports clubs side-by-side with private ones.
Proposed: Local governments decide the funding policy of sports clubs.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government takes no stand on vaccinations.
Current: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 23:03:51, October 08, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Rational Health Care Bill |
Message | What vast capitalist majority? The "party" of Matty is only capitalist when not in power. |
Date | 14:08:53, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Marxist-Leninist Happiness Front | To | Debating the Rational Health Care Bill |
Message | We don't define being capitalist as whether or not the government privatizes the water supply or whether the government allows a "free trade" in body parts. Or whether there is a vaccination program for preventable diseases that can ravage the general population. We define it as whether vast segments of industry should be taken over and run by the government or through collective organizations. If we could get Matty to vote with us to creatre a socialist economy we'd be in heaven. We asked. He won't. He's more flexiblle than Justice and yourself but still a far cry from what we ultimately desire. And that is why you have the parties of the center like Matty and the Progressives are acting a bit whacky. Because when they vote for centrist proposals their profile ends up looking almost the same as mine. They believe in the free market, I don't. And the profiles don't reflect that. If you vote the way a free market advocate in say the real world would vote rather than a crazed libertarian you end up with a profile little different from the communist. The lack of nuances is how you ended up with a "regulator" profile and I ended up with a "religious" profile. What you're really criticizing them for is for moving their profile by voting FOR some stuff that is more extreme than they believe in rather than proposing bills they have no intention of voting in order to switch their profile. I field no difference from his omnibus bills he voted yes on and the "stance" bills other parties voted no on. All that happens because Market seems to be THE decider on how well parties do. We're an ideological party so we're fine with never coming in first or second. As long as parties are willing to work with us we're happy. |
Date | 16:45:04, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Peoples Revolutionary Front | To | Debating the Rational Health Care Bill |
Message | The Word RATIONAL really fits into this bill, good proposal. |
Date | 20:12:26, October 09, 2007 CET | From | Imperial Cildanian Egoists | To | Debating the Rational Health Care Bill |
Message | OOC: Would have no problem with their voting behavior, if the system fuctioned as it is supposed to. As it is, with coherency apparently being a static value that simply sits at perfect no matter what you do, rather than a dynamic one based on voting behaviors, their practice of vote switching can be fairly characterized as taking advantage of a bug in the system, which in most online games would be considered cheating. As to this party, it never proposes a bill unless it intends to vote yes on it. |
Date | 03:50:53, October 10, 2007 CET | From | Space, Technology, Eugenics And Monarchy | To | Debating the Rational Health Care Bill |
Message | Full of the irrelevant. These particular irrelevancies would require funding. This funding could be better spent on the cause of progress. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||
yes | Total Seats: 20 | ||||
no |
Total Seats: 22 | ||||
abstain | Total Seats: 33 |
Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
Random quote: "Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - John Dalberg-Acton |