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Bill: Rational Healthcare plan.
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kazari Militarist Movement
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 2629
Description[?]:
| Submitted by Dr. Kirby Fung We feel that we need to moderate government control on the healthcare system, private ownership of clinics should not be so regulated, however we still favor a national healthcare system reserved for the working and lower classes as well as the middle class. We also want to allow children of all socio-economic backgrounds free access to preventive medicines and routine physicals. |
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 Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:44:10, August 27, 2008 CET | From | Socialist League for a new society | To | Debating the Rational Healthcare plan. |
| Message | This is an meliorative proposal in front of the current situation. However we observe the ratio the Confucian League has proposed it is only to contrast and contain the Socialists' proposal for a whole-public health care service. If the proposal would have been made only by article 1, we would have opposed. We responsably will support the Confucians' proposal only because of the article 2. |
| Date | 20:44:21, August 27, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Rational Healthcare plan. |
| Message | We are on the fence with supporting article 1, but article 2 cannot be supported at the moment. We already have a spending deficit of 14 billions RUT. |
| Date | 21:48:01, August 27, 2008 CET | From | Kazari Militarist Movement | To | Debating the Rational Healthcare plan. |
| Message | -Dr. Kirby Fung responds to both the concerns of the RDF and SL- "By cutting back on unnecessary regulations and subsidizations of the mentioned private clinics, we will be setting up new budget priorities within the Rutanian National Healthcare System. Putting such strict regulations on private clinics do not help the lower classes achieve better medical care, in fact the opposite is true if you put causal relationships in mind; the more money the government has to put into regulating private clinics that are normally occupied by wealthier tenants who can generally afford the private care without government assistance, the less money that will be able to go into providing more services for the lower, working and middle classes." "Now I am indeed no political scientist by trade but I hypothesize that the RDF and SL will have to weigh the options between regulation and funding of clinics for the wealthy and medication for the less fortunate. I have no intent to revise this bill." |
| Date | 22:51:58, August 27, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Rational Healthcare plan. |
| Message | "As we already said, we could support article 1, as a matter of health care system reform. But, for article 2, we currently have no resources. " |
| Date | 13:27:08, August 28, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Rational Healthcare plan. |
| Message | We can support Article 1 and will support Article 2. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 150 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 410 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 39 |
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