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Bill: Health Care Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Raging Bull Zealots of Zidine
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: January 2149
Description[?]:
| Or lack of, either way less government intervention. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on subsidising contraception.
Old value:: The government subsidises a considerable discount for contraceptives.
Current: The government subsidises a considerable discount for contraceptives.
Proposed: The government does not supply free or discounted contraceptives.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Current: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Health and safety legislation for industry.
Old value:: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Current: The government introduces and actively regulates health and safety legislation in all areas of industry.
Proposed: Health and safety laws are to be determined by local governments.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: The use of cannabis is legal.
Proposed: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:14:46, November 30, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Kafuristan | To | Debating the Health Care Act |
| Message | I love to hate you right-wing parties. You may as well create a "Highway Act" to abandon all road construction and maintinence. |
| Date | 02:58:19, December 01, 2005 CET | From | Sect of the Green Moon | To | Debating the Health Care Act |
| Message | Did you like my previous "Better Education Act"? |
| Date | 22:56:54, December 02, 2005 CET | From | Communist Party of Kafuristan | To | Debating the Health Care Act |
| Message | Oh, right, the banning of government support for common education. Brilliant. It does not take one beyond the public education level of grade two to see how you lie openly, but the resulting uneducated generation seems to now be voting in the most recent election. If I remember correctly, my correctly named and happily successful immediate reform called your act Misleading. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 160 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 117 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 23 |
| Random fact: Character names must appear plausible and should consist of at least a first name and a surname. Exceptions to this will only be granted at Moderation's discretion and where a very strong case has been presented |
| Random quote: "We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice." - Friedrich August von Hayek |