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Bill: NHS Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Party
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 3129
Description[?]:
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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 | 02:42:45, May 31, 2011 CET | From | Socialist Party | To | Debating the NHS Act |
| Message | Stephen Myerson, Leader of the Labour Party Mr Speaker, thousands of our people die every year because they do not have medical insurance and cannot afford operations. It is absolutely disgraceful that a country as developed as ours should have such a situation. Poverty sentences many of our people to an early death. Mr Speaker, it is time to change this. We propose the introduction of a nationalised and comprehensive healthcare service, free at the point of delivery and funded by taxation. The private sector cannot provide such services at an acceptable level: no citizen should die because they cannot afford care. |
| Date | 11:27:14, May 31, 2011 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the NHS Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Viscount Townsend MP, Leader of the Oppositon, Mr Speaker, i ask the government who will be funding this new "NHS". Oh yes....let me answer it for him. It will be the people through heavy taxes. The HCP opposes these new taxes and this NHS. This is essentially more communism. Under a private system it encouraged people to find work and instill a work ethic but now it encourages lazyness and welfare. Mr Speaker, prices for medicine, operations etc will now rapidly increase. Drugs companies are now selling to one major company in the "NHS" and a few very small private companies. This means they can charge whatever the hell they want and hold this state to ransom. At least now, Mr Speaker, the PM is to blame when people die because the state cannot afford to buy them simple medicine! |
| Date | 14:25:36, May 31, 2011 CET | From |  Liberal Democrats | To | Debating the NHS Act |
| Message | Rt Hon George Norton MP, Prime Minister Mr Speaker, again the Leader of the Opposition insults our people. He must think them utter fools if he thinks he can get away with calling them lazy. Many countries have National Health Services, and as far as I am aware not one of them has been held to ransom by drugs companies. Mr Speaker, I think the Leader of the Opposition needs a holiday, or perhaps an early retirement? He is getting more and more delirious as this Parliamentary term proceeds! |
| Date | 14:30:10, May 31, 2011 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the NHS Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Viscount Townsend MP, Leader of the Oppositon, Mr Speaker, typical that the Unliberal Democrats are taking this towards personal slurs so they can dodge the issue entirely. They truly are stooping to new lows. I believe the people of Hutori will be disgusted by all these new taxes they are paying for despite not voting for any of them! |
| Date | 14:42:16, May 31, 2011 CET | From | Liberal Democrats | To | Debating the NHS Act |
| Message | Rt Hon George Norton MP, Prime Minister Mr Speaker, they did vote for them, and that is why I sit on this side of the House and the Leader of Opposition sit where he sits. |
| Date | 15:46:22, May 31, 2011 CET | From | Hutorian Conservative Party | To | Debating the NHS Act |
| Message | Rt Hon Viscount Townsend MP, Leader of the Oppositon, Mr Speaker, perhaps the PM would adress the issue rather than inflate his own ego? Why on earth are the "Liberals" now advocating Communism. Given Liberal and Communist mean two different things - why do the government persist on calling themselves a "Liberal" party? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 246 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 145 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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