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Bill: Health Care Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Shuggoth Progressive 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: June 2178
Description[?]:
| This bill will end government funding for healthcare. Our healthcare system is already private. (Please note that there is an income tax bill also in draft form that dramatically reduces the tax burden on our poorest citizens. They should be able to afford their own healthcare now) |
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 free public health care system and a small number of private clinics, which are heavily regulated to ensure they treat their patients well and provide good care.
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:43:13, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Health Care Reform Act |
| Message | No. We cannot trust scheming businessmen with the health of the state's loyal servants. |
| Date | 03:47:05, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Health Care Reform Act |
| Message | Ditto. |
| Date | 09:54:22, January 29, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Health Care Reform Act |
| Message | The state's loyal servants will be provided with medical insurance amongst their employment benefits, a benefit I would expect most unions to coax out of any large employer. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 398 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 249 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 103 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "It makes no difference, in principle, if this 'collective will' is divined by the edicts of a dictator or by majority vote, so long as the rights of the individual may still be sacrificed." - Robert Garmong |