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Bill: Biotechnology Potential Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Golden Age 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: December 2120
Description[?]:
| No one can dispute the value of scientific excellence in our fast-moving and changing times. New markets are developing, previously unknown opportunities for medical and biotechnological advances have arisen and our citizens expect us not only to keep pace with the world but to find our place among the paragons of science and supply them with the best that brilliance and invention can provide. Kirlawa can gain a cutting edge in biotechnology if we act now and act decisively. At the same time, in return for our determined stance, we have the right and the responsibility to ensure that no one in our great nation is left behind. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 00:21:35, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Golden Age Party | To | Debating the Biotechnology Potential Act |
| Message | As usual, I appeal to all party leaders to consider this Bill favourably and am available for discussion of details and perspectives. |
| Date | 08:41:50, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Freedom Party | To | Debating the Biotechnology Potential Act |
| Message | I am willing to subsidize research, but not the prices |
| Date | 10:48:29, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Golden Age Party | To | Debating the Biotechnology Potential Act |
| Message | Thank you. It would be interesting to see what the other parties have to say. But having spent some time bending my mind around the way policy works in Terra, I think that subisidising prices is covered by a different policy area. There is legislation of that kind to be found under the heading of health, not science, as in this case. Or are you saying you would also oppose the regulation (not subsidisation) of prices as envisaged in this bill? |
| Date | 14:25:14, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Kirlawa Green Party | To | Debating the Biotechnology Potential Act |
| Message | we fully support this bill. A lot of pharmaceutical companies only look after a profit. We want to put health on the first place again and we'll fully support this... |
| Date | 18:05:13, October 03, 2005 CET | From | Golden Age Party | To | Debating the Biotechnology Potential Act |
| Message | I am not saying they should not profit. I am saying they should receive an edge in research. Of course no such regulation would cause losses to the companies concerned—they would still be paid handsomely for their expertise. If a company does not like the scheme and opts out, another more efficient one would be able to take the subsidy and deliver the goods instead. Given cues, markets can be intelligent. Our bio-tech and pharma knowledge base would also improve in international comparison. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 109 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 192 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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