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Bill: Free Market Health Care Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Federalist 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: January 2571
Description[?]:
| Privatizes the Health Care System to improve health care quality through competition. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Current: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Proposed: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:38:14, May 01, 2008 CET | From | Agrarian Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the Free Market Health Care Act |
| Message | We ask that the Federalist Party please explain why abolishing state interference in education is "a danger" while abolishing state interference in health care is, according to this proposal, "a bliss". |
| Date | 00:19:42, May 02, 2008 CET | From | Federalist Party | To | Debating the Free Market Health Care Act |
| Message | Because abolishing state interference in education locks out the poor, while abolishing state interference in health care introduces competition which is better for everyone. |
| Date | 01:48:54, May 02, 2008 CET | From | Agrarian Party of Mordusia | To | Debating the Free Market Health Care Act |
| Message | Where do our reforms lock out the poor? According to our proposal, they get government vouchers. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 285 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 215 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971) |