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Bill: Right to Health Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Libertarian-Socialist Coalition
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: November 2172
Description[?]:
| The LSP declares that every Jakanian citizen has the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, our current health care system is purposely designed to reward those with the means to pay for specialist doctors, intensive surgery, and patented drugs. Just because one is poor does not mean that he or she should be denied their livelihood. We at the LSP realize that a public health care system would be far too great a burden on the Jakanian taxpayer and would likely end up fairly inefficient. We propose a middle ground between too much help and no help at all by subsidizing the health costs of the poor. By allowing private practices, we can still reward good doctors with more visits and, thus, a better income. Yet, subsidizing the poor's health costs will make sure that no doctor remains too out of reach for anybody. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely private.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
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 subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:06:05, January 16, 2006 CET | From |  Jakanian Democratic Socialist Party | To | Debating the Right to Health Bill |
| Message | Supported |
| Date | 21:28:43, January 16, 2006 CET | From | Party for a Democratic Socialist Society | To | Debating the Right to Health Bill |
| Message | We would support, even though we want a national health service instead |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 48 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 133 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 69 |
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