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Bill: Health Services Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Liberal Alliance
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: March 2172
Description[?]:
| Same as for education, there is no majority for privatisation, but we should certainly allow the private sector to provide health services to give people choice. Also, we do fail to see why the state should pay for medication of those who are fully able to make a contribution. Whilst we favour simply subsidising this for people on low incomes, we realise that there is much disagreement on this and therefore we are proposing that the state will continue to provide free medication for those on low incomes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Current: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:24:45, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Health Services Act |
| Message | The bill does not take into account the huge effect medical expenses can have on an individuals financial situation, even if they are nowhere near low income. Removing the current subsidy from all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs would increase the need for private insurance, which would increase the costs of health care significantly. We can see that in all countries with compulsory public health insurance provide good health care for much lower costs than countries relying purely on private health insurance for majority of the population (eg. Frances per capita expenditure is 50% lower than in the US and basically all health indicators are significantly better.) |
| Date | 09:36:14, January 14, 2006 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Health Services Act |
| Message | If there isn't a majority to pass article 2, then i'll remove it so that article 1 can pass |
| Date | 19:44:57, January 14, 2006 CET | From | Conservative Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Health Services Act |
| Message | I would much rather see, fully privatized health care, and only paying for the poor instead. |
| Date | 20:44:07, January 14, 2006 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Health Services Act |
| Message | I know, but this is better than what we have at the moment! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 204 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 151 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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