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Bill: Public Private Partnership
Details
Submitted by[?]: National People's Gang
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 2109
Description[?]:
| New treatments should be accessible to all citizens of Lodamun, therefore it is necessary to impose limits on the charges for the drugs. However, unless the government is willing to support research, private drug companies will simply produce the most profitable. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:51:17, September 10, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Public Private Partnership |
| Message | Supported. |
| Date | 09:55:37, September 11, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Public Private Partnership |
| Message | "However, unless the government is willing to support research, private drug companies will simply produce the most profitable." Wouldnt the most profitable be those with the highest demand, ie those that are needed most? |
| Date | 17:06:36, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Public Private Partnership |
| Message | Only if every drug cost the same and every individual had the same income to spend. That is not the case, however. Drugs to help old men with their sexual dysfunctions are going to be more profitable than drugs to cure diseases common among low-income earners, even though the second is a much greater sneed to save human lives. That's because the men with the problems in bed have more money to spend. Medications to prevent wrinkles among wealthy women are more profitable than drugs to treat breast cancer, although the demand is much higher for the latter. Supply and demand react to money-driven market forces, not human needs. Or Take AIDS drugs: they are simply unaffordable to all but a handful of people, but when prices are subsidized they become affordable to all. Thus the government might choose to deliberately distort the market through subsidies, because saving human life is more important. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 160 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 112 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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