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Bill: Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700
Details
Submitted by[?]: Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA)
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: June 2703
Description[?]:
| The healthcare industry is much more efficient when in the hands of private companies. They will be motivated to efficency by the wish to profit but will be regulated by competition. However, the League understands that a sudden change would be detrimental, so we propose continued subsidies for the lower classes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
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: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
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 | 23:43:28, January 23, 2009 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Union (IA) | To | Debating the Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700 |
| Message | I completely disagree. The current law, allows the Imperial Health Ministry, to help those that can not afford their own healthcare, or do not get it from the companies they work for. While at the same time, those that can afford such luxuries are not forced to be under the public’s healthcare system. Keep the status quo, allow the people to have the choice. |
| Date | 11:49:35, January 24, 2009 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700 |
| Message | No, the current status quo enforces an inefficient bureaucracy-chocked state system that costs a fortune. Private proffessionals are much better at running businesses than the government and this includes the healthcare industry. Competition will automaticaly mean lower prices so that healthcare will be affordable to all. Government subsidy for the poor is necessary in a transition period. |
| Date | 17:48:53, January 24, 2009 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Union (IA) | To | Debating the Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700 |
| Message | I stick to the status quo, the current one is better, for it allows people the choice to what they want. |
| Date | 11:16:41, January 25, 2009 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700 |
| Message | There is a flat tax in Luthori, meaning that everyone must pay. This great principle means that there is no marxist redestribution of wealth. The status quo is actually a promotion of corporate welfare. Having to compete with the government is nearly impossible because of the fact that the state has unlimited tax funds. This means that established corporations do not have to fear competition and thus have no assurance of quality. The proposed legislation would not in any way raise prices or lower quality, on the contrary, we will be able to lower the flat tax, which will mean more money for the people that they can chose to invest into profitable funds. A merciless competition between companies will mean that only the best will survive, the best being those who offer the lowest prices at the highest quality. We implore His Majesty, in all His wisdom to reconsider, for he knows that the League has only the best interest of all at heart. Indeed, this is the fundamental rule of good economics, they must benefit everyone at the same level and not favour a particular group over another. The status quo favours the rich who can afford private healthcare over the poor who are stuck with low quality government healthcare. |
| Date | 22:13:05, January 25, 2009 CET | From | Imperial Conservative Union (IA) | To | Debating the Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700 |
| Message | A merciless competition also means that the prices can go up. Yes, private competition is good, but a basic and maybe not wonderful health care system is needed for those that can not afford healthcare. The point is to allow people the choice. The current one does not make private industry healthcare bad, it simple says there is a state one competing alongside of it. Now yes the state has the funds of the people, but the state one is thus because so packed with the people. Private healthcare is actually more competitive for that fact. Thanks to the fact that they can not survive on just the wealthy people in this nation, they will compete to make their healthcare services cheaper, and at the same time better in quality. The government one strives to do the same. Now is it fair competition? Probably not since the government one has the taxes to pay for it, yet it has a massive bureaucracy to work through, so that mean the private healthcare systems have a faster system. This is capitalism at its finest. With the ultimate competition between private industries and state industries, each trying to make things cheaper and better in quality. If we take this government healthcare out, at first it will be as you say. However over time the companies will raise their prices, and the quality may or may not remain good, depending on how many corners they try to cut. The poor will be left with no way to pay, and in the end the majority of the nation will suffer. This is the status quo, and the best solution. For if the private industry pulls ahead, then the nation's economy wins, and if the government one pulls ahead, then the people win. Either way we benefit. |
| Date | 16:04:29, January 26, 2009 CET | From | Constitutionalist Imperial League (IA) | To | Debating the Healthcare Privatization Act of 2700 |
| Message | With mericless competition, prices will not go up, as if they do, the companies will lose their clients and thus lose money. The status quo makes it casi impossible for private companies who appeal to lower classes to compete with the government because of public spending. The state, in its very nature, distort competition by giving it completely unfair advantages. This is not apitalism at its finest, this is the deeply flawed keynesian theory that states that the government can play God with the economy. The government is not an all powerfull force that can distort the natural occurance of market capitalism without consenquences. However, we thank the court for an interesting and civil debate, we will now move to vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 75 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 125 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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