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Bill: Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: One Nation Conservative 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 2168
Description[?]:
| This Act will remove Governmental funding for prescription drugs and deregulise prices to allow competetitive markets to keep prices low. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government neither subsidizes research and development of drugs nor regulates their prices.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:19:20, January 06, 2006 CET | From |  SeeYainHell Party | To | Debating the Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act |
| Message | eeh, drugs are expensive. May as well let people access their right to Life, just like their right liberty and property. |
| Date | 00:37:19, January 07, 2006 CET | From | One Nation Conservative Party | To | Debating the Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act |
| Message | I believe market competetition will regulate prices. |
| Date | 01:51:32, January 07, 2006 CET | From | Friedrich Hayek Party | To | Debating the Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act |
| Message | Plus we currently provide subsidies do we not? |
| Date | 15:42:50, January 07, 2006 CET | From | SeeYainHell Party | To | Debating the Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act |
| Message | cough *United States* cough |
| Date | 19:13:21, January 07, 2006 CET | From | Pontesi Imperial Alliance | To | Debating the Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act |
| Message | The problem with this proposal, we feel, is that it leaves our people in the hands of corporations whose greatest interest is not the welfare of our people, but rather, quarterly profit reports. We feel that some things are too important to be left to the free market. |
| Date | 23:36:55, January 07, 2006 CET | From |  Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Prescription Drug Funding and Deregulation Act |
| Message | "deregulise prices to allow competetitive markets to keep prices low." - Unfortunately, there is also potential for them to keep prices high as intellectual property rights will only allow one company to produce one certain drug - this drug might be the only one of its kind for a disease and this will lead to extortion due to lack of competition, defeating the point of finding the compound in the first place. We also agree with the stance of the Pontesi Imperial Alliance on this act. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 43 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 41 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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