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Bill: National Health Care Reform Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Berosian 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: August 2607
Description[?]:
| We must allow for privately owned medical practices. It allows for less waiting times, more efficient medical practices, and higher quality health care. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:02:54, July 16, 2008 CET | From | Spenocratic Party | To | Debating the National Health Care Reform Bill |
| Message | Yes! We fully support this! |
| Date | 19:41:42, July 16, 2008 CET | From | Traditional Conservative Party | To | Debating the National Health Care Reform Bill |
| Message | We support this is a drastic improvement over current legislation. However, we beleive, that best form of health care would be this: There is private health care, and local governments can decide whether or not there will be public healthcare in their area. Unfortunetely, that is not an option. |
| Date | 19:42:04, July 16, 2008 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the National Health Care Reform Bill |
| Message | It does not one of the things the Berosian Party suggests - except for a rich minority. Those hwo can afford 'luxury' care, get luxury care, and everyone else gets second-rate care (since all the best carers will be poached by private enterprise, and the amount of money put into 'public' healthcare will drop). We oppose two-tiered healthcare. |
| Date | 19:51:29, July 16, 2008 CET | From | Berosian Party | To | Debating the National Health Care Reform Bill |
| Message | When healthcare is entirely owned by government, waiting rooms tend to get clogged up. People wait for months for a simple operation. To those who oppose this bill: tell those people who are waiting for months and months to get surgery that they need now that they can't have it, because the practices would be 'too good', and it wouldn't be 'fair' to a few other people. Private practices aren't all going to have outrageous costs. Some will, some won't. This bill does not create 'luxury' care and second-rate care, it provides care for all levels of income, providing a free service to those who don't necessarily need the care now, and those who don't want to spend the money, and various levels of care whose prices are determined by the clinics, ranging from the best care one can get, to above-average care, and it goes on. |
| Date | 23:56:49, July 16, 2008 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the National Health Care Reform Bill |
| Message | Waiting rooms do not get clogged. That is unsupportable rumour-mongering by the Berosian movement.Our own constituents assure us that they are more than happy with their healthcare. And therein lies the rub - even if there IS a waiting list for non-essential surgeries... why would we choose a two-tiered healthcare model that leaves a large proportion of the populace unhappy, over a single-tier healthcare model that most people are more than happy with? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 75 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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