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Bill: PSFA Malpracte Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pan-Sekowo Freedom Alliance
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: March 2544
Description[?]:
| Patients have the right to try and punish those doctors who have failed them. Allowing doctors to judge their own is a dangerious idea, after all who watches the watchmen? Good doctors will have nothing to fear from this bill, while stronger punishments for poor preformance provide an incentive for doctors to improve the standards of their care. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Malpractice suits.
Old value:: Only a medical regulatory body can prosecute a doctor for malpractice.
Current: Malpractice suits may be brought against doctors.
Proposed: Malpractice suits may be brought against doctors.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 08:45:10, March 10, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the PSFA Malpracte Bill |
| Message | This would only bring about dozens of frivolous lawsuits from individuals seeking to make money through lieing. |
| Date | 11:05:00, March 10, 2008 CET | From | Free Democratic Party | To | Debating the PSFA Malpracte Bill |
| Message | I trust the justice system over preventing patients suing for gross malpractice |
| Date | 15:34:27, March 10, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the PSFA Malpracte Bill |
| Message | This bill will raise health costs in Sekowo. It MIGHT increase health care quality, but not necessarily. What will happen is that many patients will sue for real, imagined, or invented wrongs they perceive from doctors. Win or lose, these law suits will cost doctors quite a bit. Doctors will have to purchase very expensive malpractice insurance. They will then need to charge their patients more to cover increased costs. We don't think this is such a good idea, to raise the costs of an already expensive kind of care. |
| Date | 17:29:07, March 10, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the PSFA Malpracte Bill |
| Message | The CP would like a system between the two options. A limited lawsuit that would be supervised by the medical regulatory board as to not let an escalation in costs and lost of confidence (say in a false accusation) occur. However, if the specifics had been detailed in this bill as to what can be considered "malpractice", the CP might have consider voting "yes". For the time being, the CP prefers individuals file complaints with the medical regulatory board and the board takes the action thereafter. |
| Date | 03:53:13, March 11, 2008 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the PSFA Malpracte Bill |
| Message | A middle ground would be nice. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 285 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 252 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
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