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Bill: Health and Education Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Georgeonian Centrist Party
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: February 2182
Description[?]:
| Whilst we are enjoying a period of prosprity let us use our economic surplus to improve our great nation by providing free education and healthcare for all! |
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: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Higher education institutions.
Old value:: The government leaves the development and funding of all higher education institutions up to local governments.
Current: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Proposed: The government maintains a system of universities, vocational schools, and colleges nationwide.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The regulation of higher education.
Old value:: The government does not fund any public higher education institutions, permitting only private higher education institutions to exist.
Current: The government allows public and private higher education institutions to coexist with self-regulation for those that are private.
Proposed: The government allows private higher education but regulates it to meet nationally set standards.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Higher education tuition policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidize tuition, students must pay for higher education themselves. This does not include scholarship programs.
Current: The government subsidizes higher education tuition to a certain amount, the rest is covered by the individual students. This includes scholarship programs.
Proposed: The government introduces means tested loans for higher education tuition, to be paid back by students after earnings reach a certain amount.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change The education system.
Old value:: Education is entirely private and schools run on a for-profit basis.
Current: Education is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for everyone
Proposed: There is a free public education system alongside private schools.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:27:47, February 06, 2006 CET | From |   Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Health and Education Reform Act |
| Message | The Georgeonian Centrists should really allow more debate time to see whether it'd be better to remove some proposals to see whether at least a partial advance in this direction could be agreed on. In the present standings, they rely on the votes of other parties to push their bills through, and there is an air of futility about this if it is something that only a handful of other parties agree with them on. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 28 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 244 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 27 |
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