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Bill: Provisioning Health Care and Safety for All Citizens
Details
Submitted by[?]: Utopian Anarchists 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: January 2559
Description[?]:
| As it currently stands, every citizen is on their own when it comes to health care. For the poor or disenfranchized there is no help and they may die from lack of treatment. This must end! Privatization of health care is beneficial only to the privaleged and wealthy. This bill seeks to provide equal and quality health care to all citizens. Also, the government needs to ensure that employers are providing their employees a safe place to work. Safer workplaces result in less accidents and therefore less strain on the health care system. |
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: 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.
Proposed: 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.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government recommends health and safety legislation, but they are not actively enforced on industry.
Current: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Proposed: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning organ donations.
Old value:: Organ donations are legal with personal consent.
Current: Unless otherwise stated, consent is assumed.
Proposed: Organ donation is universal and compulsory.
Article 4
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.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Current: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:28:23, April 08, 2008 CET | From |  Christian Fascist Party | To | Debating the Provisioning Health Care and Safety for All Citizens |
| Message | so this act is going to end capitalism, harvest people's organs and force people to go agianst thier beliefs? whey could anyone possiable vote agianst it |
| Date | 23:02:42, April 08, 2008 CET | From | Utopian Anarchists Party | To | Debating the Provisioning Health Care and Safety for All Citizens |
| Message | This bill: 1) will not end capitalism -- article 1 still allows for private health care 2) organ donation will only come from the deceased and it helps to support the free health care system 3) we must vaccinate all children to protect the whole nation -- it only takes one diseased child w/ religiously fundamental parents to start a pandemic |
| Date | 08:31:19, April 09, 2008 CET | From | Wessex High Imperial Party | To | Debating the Provisioning Health Care and Safety for All Citizens |
| Message | WHIP cannot in good conscience support article 3 which would mandate organ donation since this process may violate some personal, ethical and moral concerns. We certainly would SUPPORT such donation, but not support MANDATING it. If article 3 is removed from this bill, WHIP will vote yes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 237 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 88 |
| Random fact: Real-life religions should not be referenced in Particracy. Terra has its own religions, many of which mirror real-life ones. See: http://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Illustrated_Catalogue_of_Religion |
| Random quote: "The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference." - Ralph Nader |