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Bill: People's Health before profit.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Workers Party
Status[?]: passed
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: November 2098
Description[?]:
| We need a National Health Service that is run on the basis of need not profit. Private health clinics reserve the best places for paying customers. Quality is not gauranteed for the poor who have to rely on government vouchers. Let the privateers compete fairly with a properly funded public health service. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:11:20, August 20, 2005 CET | From |  Society of Sadists | To | Debating the People's Health before profit. |
| Message | There's nothing wrong with the current system as far as we're concerned. Though we would prefer hospitals to be non-profit. |
| Date | 11:58:29, August 20, 2005 CET | From | Jesters & Jugglers Party | To | Debating the People's Health before profit. |
| Message | I think that would be good for the competition |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 66 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 25 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 9 |
| Random fact: Particracy does not allow official national flags of real-life nations or flags which are very prominent and recognisable (eg. the flags of the European Union, the United Nations, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union or the Confederate States of America). |
| Random quote: "It is said, 'Pontesi is Jelbic in nature'. But I tell you, they are really a lost tribe of Selucians, forced to become barbarians by their savage Jelbic conquerors." - Alamar Xarfaxis, former Pontesian politician |