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Bill: Pharmaceutical drugs policy
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fatherland 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: May 2182
Description[?]:
| While this law currently is equally correct the rich can already pay for their drugs, there is no reason why the state should pay for them. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:23:53, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Revolutionary Socialist Alliance | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical drugs policy |
| Message | The National Health Service should provide free healthcare for all as one of its founding principles, so we must reject this. |
| Date | 23:17:51, February 06, 2006 CET | From | Libertad y Justicia | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical drugs policy |
| Message | It's a step in the right direction |
| Date | 00:34:34, February 07, 2006 CET | From |  Txurruka/Aperribai/Mayoz's OPX | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical drugs policy |
| Message | "While this law currently is equally correct the rich can already pay for their drugs, there is no reason why the state should pay for them." The last argument was, while a monopsy is not free market, it is inherently beneficial in this situation. Republica Baltusia can offer a contract to supply the pharmaceutical needs of the nation. This presents the combined buying power of 57 million people, a supremely massive market force. With this power, the government can negotiate for the lowest possible asking price, possibly only a few tenths of a percent above manufacturing cost. Why would any corporation price things so low? Because the contract to fill 57 million prescriptions, even if with a few tenths of a percent of profit on top of the manufacturing cost, this still presents a huge, low-risk profit potential for the contract-winning company. However, if we throw ourselves open on the free market, the power of the people is dissolved and prices climb. Pharmaceuticals should not be priced out of the marketplace by destroying the unity of the people. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 148 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 213 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Culturally Open nations can adopt advisory/non-enforceable Nation Descriptions. See http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6242 |
| Random quote: "The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine." - George Washington |