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Bill: Health Care Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Democrats
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: May 2815
Description[?]:
| It is time for our free people to have free health care. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: 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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:53:10, September 08, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Elitist Party | To | Debating the Health Care Reform |
| Message | We deeply oppose these welfare-centerred legislation. We believe in a minimalistic state and also in the autonomy of the citizens. The measure proposed by the NDPR is only a short term advantage but on long term the status quo is more beneficial. |
| Date | 00:44:23, September 09, 2009 CET | From | United Democrats | To | Debating the Health Care Reform |
| Message | We must allow the lower classes access to suitable health care provided by the state. The people won't seek medical help because they are fearful of the crushing financial bills they WILL receive. We need to provide some sort of health plan for the less wealthy among us otherwise an ever increasing cycle of poverty, disease and crime will incur. We hope for your support in trying to change these things. |
| Date | 01:13:01, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Liberal Democratic Party | To | Debating the Health Care Reform |
| Message | We actively support this bill, it's core being fundamental to a healthy society. |
| Date | 02:19:57, September 09, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Health Care Reform |
| Message | This legislation is rooted in faulty thinking and thoroughly disproven economic ideology - the NDPR presume that the federal government is somehow the most effective and efficient mechanism for the funding, management and distribution of vital resources, despite the fact that this idea is fundamentally flawed, as shown on many occassions. Private health systems have been shown to be not only more efficient, attracting a higher class of medical practitioner due to competitive salaries, but fairer - to put it bluntly, why shouldn't each individual pay for his own health-care, and why should those who can afford private health-care be forced to pay for the public health-care of others as well? Furthermore - and perhaps most importantly - we do not believe that the federal government has any legitimate role in funding or managing the public health-care system. Both logically and constitutionally, healthcare and indeed all social services are the domain of local governments, where decision-making capacity can reside closer to the families and communities most affected by it. |
| Date | 00:17:51, September 10, 2009 CET | From | People's Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Health Care Reform |
| Message | Surely a healthy society is necessary for an effective economy. We fully support this bill, as access to health care for all citizens should be a right and not a privilege. |
| Date | 01:16:31, September 10, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Health Care Reform |
| Message | Healthcare is most certainly not a 'right', as it is not defined by Rutania's constitution, nor is it, in any concievable way, a 'natural right' - though we dispute the concept of natural rights entirely. If the people of Rutania want public health-care, this can be administered at the local level - there is simply no need for the federal government to involve itself in an issue that has been the responsibility of local governments for decades. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 305 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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