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Bill: Privatization of Healthcare Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Old School Liberal 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: December 2132
Description[?]:
| The main benefit of having a public healthcare service is allowing the poor to receive healthcare at little to no cost. But it practically compels everyone else to use the same healthcare service because, even though there are private clinics presently, their extensive regulation has made the cost of care there prohibitively high, leaving most people with the option of public clinics or a second mortgage. The healthcare system should be privatized as soon as possible, and people should not be so restricted. The government will still provide limited health care benefits for those with incomes under 33,000 KAF, more benefits for those under 28,000 KAF, and nearly free health care for anyone living in a household making less than 22,000 KAF, including preventive care. These benefits will only apply for use at a list of clinics, comprising no more than 30% of total clinics in existence, whose prices for various services rendered are deemed to be the most reasonable by the Ministry of Health and Human Services. |
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: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
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 | 22:44:15, October 19, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Kafuristan | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | The trouble is that if a high quality clinic establishes itself to provide service for low-income people, which the state will pay entirely for, the comapnies may charge extraordinary amounts for their service and the state will be required to pay such companies. It is much more balanced in the method that the government provides free and equal facilities for citizens as well as ensuring that private clinics do not combine prices and terrible service. |
| Date | 01:42:23, October 21, 2005 CET | From | Sect of the Green Moon | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | Should be entirly private...after all...the poor people want to be poor, why do you think they live in cardboard mansions? |
| Date | 22:47:31, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Old School Liberal Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | The government will create a frequently-updated list of health clinics that are free to the poor. If a certain health clinic charges too much money in hopes of getting sizeable profits from the government's healthcare subsidies, then another health clinic whose prices are lower will win the low-income patients paid for by the government. Extremely high prices will be charged, according to the principles of economics and practicality, only by clinics catering to the very rich who promise amazing care. If price-fixing and collusion occurs, the government will naturally step in and correct the problem. |
| Date | 23:28:56, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Kafuristan | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | Or will it? We have no method to ensure that. Right now, healthcare is private AND public, which is the best balance. |
| Date | 23:31:44, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Old School Liberal Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | Except for the extensive regulation thing mentioned in the beginning, which causes private healthcare prices to go up. Way up. |
| Date | 22:15:26, October 23, 2005 CET | From |  Grand National Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | I believe the proposal is better than what we have now. |
| Date | 14:42:56, October 28, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Kafuristan | To | Debating the Privatization of Healthcare Act |
| Message | Without extensive regulation, they always cut costs to increase profit, and that is most likely a cut in service, sanitation, and more, while the publiv system can handle those restrictions. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 203 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 48 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 49 |
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