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Bill: Improving Government Services and Welfare
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Social Democratic 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: May 2167
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Funding of public transport (where applicable).
Old value:: Public transport is fully user-pays.
Current: Public transport is fully subsidised by the government.
Proposed: Public transport is partially subsidised with the remainder "user-pays".
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government policy regarding housing.
Old value:: All housing is privately-owned.
Current: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Proposed: The state provides public housing to low-income families.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:33:00, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Anti-Ownership Federation Party | To | Debating the Improving Government Services and Welfare |
| Message | all are better than the current.... however i would like to see full subsidisation of both these services.... |
| Date | 14:43:54, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Rationalist Party | To | Debating the Improving Government Services and Welfare |
| Message | I like these |
| Date | 15:49:12, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Improving Government Services and Welfare |
| Message | Full subsidisation of these services, especially with pharmaceutical drugs, would lead to overconsumption at the taxpayers expense. We want to give everyone as good a healthcare as possible, but if we fully subsidise all medication to everyone, we create an incentive for the patients, doctors and drug manufacturers to overprescribe medication, which will lead to rapidly rising costs, especially as medicine develops new expensive treatments at an accelerating rate. To guarantee good medication to everyone, but to reduce we propose a small financial responsibility also to the user. This will lead to increase in awareness that the treatment indeed has a price, and people will be less inclined to use very expensive medication that has a doubtful or marginal effect on their health (and which they will almost certainly use if the government subsidises the medication fully). This will keep the costs at a reasonable level and not drive the whole system to bankruptcy. And naturally we wish to emphasise that we feel that the public subsidy should cover a substantial portion of the total cost of the treatment, just not 100%. |
| Date | 17:00:35, January 05, 2006 CET | From | Telamon National Party | To | Debating the Improving Government Services and Welfare |
| Message | I like this proposal. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 178 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 61 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
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