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Bill: Healthcare Reform Act of 2551
Details
Submitted by[?]: Solentian Populist Party
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: March 2552
Description[?]:
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
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 2
Proposal[?] to change Sale of tobacco products.
Old value:: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products but everyone is allowed to buy them.
Current: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco products but everyone is allowed to buy them.
Proposed: There are certain restrictions on the sale of tobacco and only adults may purchase tobacco.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 05:48:49, March 26, 2008 CET | From | Federal Republican Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform Act of 2551 |
| Message | Originally announced and delivered in the Healthcare Reform Act of 2550 with pertinent amendments.. "Respectfully, To our respected colleagues perhaps clarification is in order. To the esteemed N.Z.P and U.D.P; it is not a right of Solentians to have healthcare provided to them. It simply is not. If you can explain to me the logic behind having everyone pay for people who have income levels above one-hundred thousand a year, of whom can afford their own private insurance or is likely provided at their workplace. Article two does not abolish a national healthcare system. It makes it more sensible, if anything. It allows us to clear an enormous burden on all Solentians paying for everyones healthcare while focusing this wealth in other areas and having a surplus to cover those unemployed or otherwise living on low-incomes. Article 1 runs deep to the heart of our founding principals. It is not the governments job to dictate morality upon our citizens. You may have no seen it yet but, within the papers this morning it was announced a fellow legislator was implicated in a bribery scandal. We must have credibility in the government and we do not. Who are we to dictate such principals upon children. It is the parents job, not the governments. We can understand your concerns about Article 1's language, as it does cause alarm with some of our own senior party members. However, the F.R.P. has studied this thoroughly and found that such a regulation on the sale to minors of tobacco will in aggregate do our nation a favor. Minors who are going to smoke, are going to smoke with or without a law-we all know this. It is also known that smoking is a plague upon our health and is costing our nations countless amounts of money on healthcare of smoking-related illness. At best this measure serves as a deterent and a friendly way to induce parents to explain the consequences of picking up such an atrocious habit. Also, in full disclosure I, Ulrich Naveed, am a smoker and am in support of this measure. Respectfully, Signed, Party Chairman, Ulrich Naveed" |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 196 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 229 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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