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Bill: Public Safety
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Kafuristan
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: May 2130
Description[?]:
| This is a limited selection of Equal Opportunity proposals which have been chosen because they aren't the sort of proposals which normally destroy bills, and they will help our nation and its health overall. With these changes: - All citizens may afford to be healthy, with contagious diseases reduced and therefore prevented, saving our healthcare's budget for other things and better services provided - Sexually transmitted diseases will be reduced and prevented, not only with benefit to partners but helping future children as well who would otherwise be born with disease - Those who avoid purchasing contraceptives due to price and obtainability obviously cannot afford to bear and raise a child, taking future strain from the welfare and adoption departments' budgets The restriction of drug prices is to avoid high prices which citizens will feel inclined to pay as the government will kindly cover part of the cost. Drug prices shall remain the same, with dug company expenses reduced as well as expenses taken from the public wallet. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Current: The government subsidises a considerable discount for contraceptives.
Proposed: The government offers free contraceptives in pharmacies and public toilets.
Article 2
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.
Article 3
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 for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:26:40, October 22, 2005 CET | From | Old School Liberal Party | To | Debating the Public Safety |
| Message | Generally too communist. |
| Date | 20:47:39, October 23, 2005 CET | From | Sect of the Green Moon | To | Debating the Public Safety |
| Message | This disagrees with my Free Market Policies. |
| Date | 01:59:56, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian and Federalist Alliance | To | Debating the Public Safety |
| Message | You voting against would want thousands of teenage pregnancies, which could be averted with the passage of Art. I? |
| Date | 02:15:23, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Old School Liberal Party | To | Debating the Public Safety |
| Message | We would vote against spending billions to buy contraceptives. We wouldn't mind spending a few billion less and subsidizing their cost, but our no vote is not just about that. We refuse to have the government engage in a spending frenzy by subsidizing the cost of drugs to excess (which is the job of private insurance companies), and we definitely refuse to start introducing unnecessary controls into the market. |
| Date | 02:24:59, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian and Federalist Alliance | To | Debating the Public Safety |
| Message | No contraceptives, no constitutional amendment. |
| Date | 02:26:37, October 24, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian and Federalist Alliance | To | Debating the Public Safety |
| Message | We offer to any party voting against this law: vote for it, and we shall vote for the constitutional amendment, without which, your amend. is doomed to failure. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 146 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 93 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 61 |
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