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Bill: Health Partnership Act 2877
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM)
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: July 2878
Description[?]:
| This Act will allow public and private healthcare to co-exist properly. |
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: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 11:22:22, January 13, 2010 CET | From |  Conservative-Libertarian Party (UM) | To | Debating the Health Partnership Act 2877 |
| Message | The Prime Minister: Mr Speaker, since its inception, the Conservative-Libertarian Party has long advocated that healthcare should be entirely private. It was believed that the state had no role to play whatsoever in medical matters, and should concern itself merely with defence, law and order, and the guaranteeing of civil liberties. However, we must now recognise, Mr Speaker, that the people of Hutori want, expect and demand the state to take some sort of a role in healthcare. Yet at the moment, Mr Speaker, the system does more harm than good. Whilst the socialist opposition have been good enough to allow private clinics to exist, their existence is meek and unhappy. The bureaucracy that enfolds them harms their operation and prevents them from doing what they do best, treating ill patients. Mr Speaker, I therefore desire to break with history, and bring forward a middle way on this. We must be careful to ensure that we never present to the people a golden age of healthcare. The socialists paint the 100% private system under the CLP government as a time of mass illness and poverty. It just was not so. One only needs look at the record of Constantine Healthcare, the Richardson Hospital Partnership and the various charities that existed to combat illness and strife. Similarly, my party has been far too keen to paint socialist healthcare as meagre, expensive and evil. And, Mr Speaker, let it be said that neither side of the argument has been completely right, but neither have they been completely wrong. Under the current system, patients can be refused healthcare on the grounds that it would prove too expensive to the taxpayer. Yet, if that patient then seeks assistance at a private clinic, the patient can be refused all further treatment in the public sector. Quite plainly, Mr Speaker, this is wrong, and belongs to some misconceived notion of total equality, regardless of the consequences. I would therefore like to encourage all parties to support this bill, to see public and private hospitals and surgeries existing together. No patient shall be denied treatment at a public hospital, but the choice will remain for them to seek private healthcare should they so desire to. Mr Speaker, we must give the people freedom of choice on this matter, and stop the government from intruding in the private sector. Furthermore, Mr Speaker, under this system, public healthcare, whilst being overseen by the central government, will largely be held accountable and monitored by local authorities, ensuring that the best provision is provided for the people of certain areas. Mr Speaker, this is a bill that should be supported by all members of this house, as it will revolutionise our health system, and will work for the people rather than for politicians. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 230 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 161 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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