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Bill: Healthcare Act
Details
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: March 3575
Description[?]:
| Mr. Speaker, It is a disgrace that the sick, needy and destitute in this country are denied the prescriptions they so desperately need, either for the preservation of their own well-being, or of their very health. It is also unacceptable that private insurance companies have their profits subsidised by the government through the reimbursement system, whose means-testing and eligibility bureaucracy are a waste of valuabel resources. It is better to have a universal system with coverage for all without vested profit interests, with private alternatives supplementing it if one finds those better. Aeronwen Deere Unity Social Services Spokeswoman |
Proposals
Article 1
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: 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.
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 pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:26:43, November 10, 2013 CET | From | Freedom Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Act |
| Message | Mr Speaker, While we Good agree that health care should be a right for all Dranish citizens, we are absolutely outraged by the anti-freedom-of-choice talk of the honourable lady from Unity. Public hospitals, as well as schools, constitute a form of discrimination towards poor citizens, as in such a system, only the rich will have access to private alternatives that ensure the optimal service for everybody through variety. This is communism. Universal welfare systems are best when combined with private management and profits, so that there can be both have welfare, competition and freedom of choice for all, not just the rich. Daffyd Myrcwid GPM Welfare spokesman |
| Date | 00:15:02, November 11, 2013 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We share Unity's concern about those on low incomes being unable to afford medicines, so we could support Article 2. Article 1, however, would be a disaster. State-run healthcare systems are horribly inefficient and deliver poor service quality. You would not help the poor by cutting off their access to good private healthcare. Aled Pritchard Leader of the Grand National Party |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 169 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 194 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 36 |
| Random fact: In order for a Cabinet bill to pass, more than half of the legislature must vote for it and all of the parties included in the proposed Cabinet must support it. If your nation has a Head of State who is also the Head of Government, then the party controlling this character must also vote for the bill, since the Head of Government is also a member of the Cabinet. If any of these requirements are not met, the bill will not pass. |
| Random quote: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater |