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Bill: CPL Health Subsidies Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Liberal 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: February 2111
Description[?]:
| The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs The CPL proposes that the government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices. Pharmaceutical drugs policy The CPL proposes that the government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes. |
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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Current: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
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 | 20:41:51, September 10, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs The CPL proposes that the government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices. Pharmaceutical drugs policy The CPL proposes that the government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes. |
| Date | 12:27:54, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | We are pro this bill, because we agree wholeheartedly with the second article. The first we are not so firmly in favour of, but we can accept it for the sake of the second. |
| Date | 13:11:51, September 11, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | The CPL feels that it is in our interests, as a wealthy nation, to help the poor. However we dot support a welfare state, just a few non-cash benefits in important areas. |
| Date | 13:21:27, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | The AAP applauds the humanitarian concerns of the CPL. We are also inclined to follow the LPE lead, here... the second part of this bill justifies supporting the first. |
| Date | 13:32:14, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | Tahnkyou. I had been open to sneak this bill in before the election, but don't think I can now. |
| Date | 15:37:31, September 12, 2005 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | The RLP cannot support increasing government involvement in business practices. By the very nature of deciding who to subsidise and who not to, there is an invitation for corruption as well as a distortion of the free market economy. Funding equals control, and soon the race is not to see who performs best, but who pleases the government most. Let the invisible hand decide who wins and loses, and the best will win, making lower costs for all. |
| Date | 22:53:25, September 12, 2005 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | Response to the RLP: While we in the AAP are sympathetic to the market forces you describe, and, indeed, embrace such libertarian values... we feel there is special circumstance to healthcare. If the government does NOT help the poorest people to afford healthcare, market forces will have little effect, because there is NO OTHER OPTION. The poorest people need healthcare just as much as the wealthy, and, if they die for lack of medication, they can contribute nothing to 'market forces'. |
| Date | 10:27:55, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | Thats is entirely our view. We prefer the free market to have its say, therefore we oppose a health system entirely subsidised by the state, however we feel, out of a sense of paternalism and compassionate conservatism, that the poor must be given some aid to buy medicines. |
| Date | 20:30:32, September 13, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the CPL Health Subsidies Bill |
| Message | Pushing for a vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 165 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 82 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 14 |
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