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Bill: Privatize Health Care Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Movement for White Supremacy
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 2141
Description[?]:
| In order to create an optimal Free Market and Capitalist Economy, and also in order to decrease the size of government and the costs involved, The CAPITALIST CONSPIRACY Under the divine leadership of our glorious ruler, Sam Walton, Proposes that all public health care acts performed by the government be abolished, in favor of privately owned and highly innovative Health Care and Medicinal practices. |
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: Health care is entirely private.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:55:00, November 15, 2005 CET | From | Alianse Progresivitāte | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | I'll say this for the bill... it would definately save a lot of room in the budget for other needs. |
| Date | 22:17:11, November 15, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Its also a surefire way of ensuring that given the opportunity, we shall completely disband the private sector. |
| Date | 02:10:30, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Movement for White Supremacy | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Well, since we are given the oppertunity, the LPP-CPD-DNUP-CC Bloc has decided to completely disband the public sector. Speaking of which, DNUP, I am including you in the bloc from now on. |
| Date | 08:20:25, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | So you have decided to neglect your responsibilities to the population of Dolgaria with regards to ensuring that they don't die unecissarily then? |
| Date | 08:45:06, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Well I'm going to switch my vote in favour, only because there is nothing that I can actually do to prevent this from passing, and I need to edge my visibility away from regulatory. |
| Date | 09:13:38, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | The above remark was brought to you by "Flip Flops United: just when you think you know what Flip Flopers stand for, they don't!" Trying to win back some of your voters from me, DUP? =D |
| Date | 12:23:24, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Yes |
| Date | 12:25:11, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Oddly enough, CU had around 80% voter retention, probably the best of any party. My guess is that 'not voting' on bills actually does you more good than voting on them does, at least once you ahve established a certain degree of visibility anyway. That is certainly what happened with me during my long tenure of being 'number one'. Well I certainly didn't propose any bills at least anyway. |
| Date | 12:27:48, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | I'm surprised I hurt you. I thought I would mainly kill DNUP. After all, I vote with him 80% of the time. I think what happened was I nudged in the gap between DNUP and DUP, and soaking up what was FTP and BPlus, and taking the egdes of DNUP and a chunk of DUP... That's my theory anyway. |
| Date | 12:28:26, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | I only managed about 42% voter retention though. And on an interesting note, around 75% that voted for me in the first round of the HoS elections voted for you in the 2nd. |
| Date | 12:32:48, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Okay, so we're competing for the vast leftist vote most likely. I can be the libertarian left, and you can be the authoritarian left. There's plenty of room. =P |
| Date | 12:47:08, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | So why the heck would you firstly be in government with a goose-stepper like CC? And secondly, support a bill such as this that would destroy the only access to healthcare that many Dolgarians have? |
| Date | 12:47:38, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Oh and you can find out who's voters you nicked, that's what the custom polls are for. |
| Date | 12:54:11, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Basically this is the breakdown of what people that voted for you in this election voted in the last: Dolgar Unionist Party 58.6% BPlus 28.5% Dolgar National Unity Party 12.2% FTP 0.8% So, you hoovered up a good deal of the FTP vote, nabbed almost 60% of mine and about 12% of the DNUP vote. Actually that's not entirely true, this is where the FTP vote went: Conservative Party of Dolgaria 24.1% Dolgar National Unity Party 20.4% CIVIL UNION 22.3% CAPITALIST CONSPIRACY!! 16.6% Dolgar Unionist Party 9.9% Liberty and Prosperity Party 6.7% |
| Date | 12:55:27, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Actually what I meant was that 60% of the people that voted for you this time, voted for me at the last election. As I said, I had around 50% voter retention, its just that a lot of the ones I lost voted for you this time around.... |
| Date | 12:56:13, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | And I'm going to flip back, just in case the DNUP or CU come to their senses. |
| Date | 13:02:10, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | It seems as though CC got most of their voters from the DNUP, and oddly enough the DNUP got almost 1/3 of their voters from me as well. So really, my defeat in the polls was entirely down to your appearance, and quite possibly a policy shift in the DNUP towards the ground that I was covering, or perhaps a shift by myself away from the ground that I had covered previously. I think that my economic restrictive visibility might have something to do with this, despite actually being the one that proposed most of the deregulation of the economy in the first instance.... |
| Date | 22:34:54, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Movement for White Supremacy | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Why do you keep calling me a goose stepper. What does that even mean? I know you are from the UK (at least I am guessing) and that "slang" is completely foreign to me. |
| Date | 22:59:02, November 16, 2005 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | "Goose stepping" is how Nazi soldiers marched in their military parades, I believe. |
| Date | 04:23:43, November 17, 2005 CET | From | Movement for White Supremacy | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | oooooooooh that is familiar |
| Date | 05:42:46, November 17, 2005 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Thanks for helping us pass this DUP. Your contribution to the private sector is duly noted. DNUP's senses apparently did return, or fail him, however you want to look at it ;) |
| Date | 10:07:39, November 17, 2005 CET | From | Dolgarian Imperial Revivalists | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | Well it made little difference, as even if I had voted against then the DNUP's vote would not have been enough to defeat the bill, as it only required a simple majority, rather than 50% or more. So, first thing after the next election i shall seek to switch things in completely the other direction, hopefully for good.... |
| Date | 00:40:00, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Liberty and Prosperity Party | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | After the next election, I think CPD will soak up all of CU, and control the government.... |
| Date | 17:28:12, November 18, 2005 CET | From | Movement for White Supremacy | To | Debating the Privatize Health Care Act |
| Message | No, I am hoping to soak up CU. = ) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 487 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 94 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 169 |
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