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Bill: Healthcare Improvement Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Reform Party
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: July 2984
Description[?]:
| This Bill offers assistance to those on low incomes towards the cost of heathcare and medicines. It must surely be recognised that healthcare is one of the most fundamental services that citizens need and should not be dictated entirely by their ability to pay. This bill does not interfere with the general structure of the heal system, but offers help to those who may not otherwise be able to afford decent healthcare and medicines. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: Health care is entirely private.
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 does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:42:26, August 09, 2010 CET | From | Dream Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | Don't think the rhetoric will fly in this environment, but you, once again, have our meaningless support. |
| Date | 14:32:42, August 10, 2010 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | It has been clear in Pantian history our stance on this kind of socialism and thusly we will vote against this. |
| Date | 16:02:35, August 10, 2010 CET | From | Reform Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | I would hardly call this 'socialism'. Do you not accept that the poorest in our society should have access to medical care that they may not otherwise be able to afford? |
| Date | 23:33:31, August 10, 2010 CET | From | Unión Democrática | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | They should have access to basic care, but this is the duty of society, through charities, to provide this car. -Timothy Carr, Minister of Health and Social Services |
| Date | 18:46:14, August 11, 2010 CET | From | Reform Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | Does the government think it wrong that it provides state funds for public recycling facilities but refuses to for healthcare? |
| Date | 14:35:57, August 12, 2010 CET | From | Baltusian Pantian Alliance | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | Recycling makes us more economically efficient welfare states give no punishment for low productivity. |
| Date | 16:47:35, August 13, 2010 CET | From | Reform Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Improvement Bill |
| Message | You would put a small economic boost above the health of your citizens? You think people should die if they're not able to pay? Your party should be ashamed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 516 | ||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 234 |
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