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Bill: Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fortschrittsvereinigung
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: December 4158
Description[?]:
| We believe in order to make sure our citizens can afford pharmaceutical drugs and that drug companies do not provide them at exploitive prices, that our government provides at least basic price regulations for pharmaceuticals. Our government regulates the prices of many other products, many of which are no where near as important as pharmaceuticals. My party urge even the most economically liberal members of the State Council to back this bill; medicine and our ill citizens should not be victim to corporate greed. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs but does not regulate their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:38:32, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Libertären Partei | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We dont have to regulate prices, the free market already regulates the prices! Arend Beyer, State Chansellor. |
| Date | 16:38:34, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Libertären Partei | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, We dont have to regulate prices, the free market already regulates the prices! Arend Beyer, State Chansellor. |
| Date | 16:52:09, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Liberalen Partei | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | And makes them too damn high so the poor die and the sick die and it's all in the name of crony capitalism |
| Date | 17:23:24, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Libertären Partei | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | Mr. LAP guy, Thanks to the free market and competition prices are as low as possible without making a loss. And crony capitalism is something completely else! Arend Beyer, State Chansellor. |
| Date | 18:06:57, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Liberalen Partei | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | Wrong. I have many relatives who can't afford it, and I've seen others on the news. If all corporations want is profit, regulation won't destroy it altogether |
| Date | 18:20:14, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Fortschrittsvereinigung | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | State Chancellor, Competition? Heavens above, this is medicine we are talking about, they should not be subject to the same corporate attitude as luxury products and so forth. Drug companies do not want to lower prices in the name of competition, they want to rake in as much money as possible; medicine is an essential, they know people who need it will be willing to pay extortionate amounts for it in a worst case scenario. As such it is not in their best interests to keep prices low. The Libertarians and Conservative allies are indeed very gullible! Nicolas Dorn, Leader of the Progress Party |
| Date | 18:24:21, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Konservative Union | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | Mr. Dorn, Here we see your lack of competence concerning the economy. YES, the pharmaceutical industry is the branch of the economy. AND it should be subject to the SAME corporate attitude. IT"S THE FREE MARKET "HEAVENS ABOVE"!!! And you seem to be really incompetent I must admit. Do you not understand the fact that the free market economy and the unlimited competition forces the prices to actually drop? Tim Tancredi. |
| Date | 19:44:26, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Liberalen Partei | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | The free market has killed more people than the average soldier, and I frankly don't give a shit about their petty competition when we could much more easily save our people without waiting for competition to rise |
| Date | 19:52:07, January 29, 2017 CET | From | Konservative Union | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drug Price Regulation Act 4158 |
| Message | Mr. LAP.... so win the election, and then you will be able to "save our people"... Tim Tancredi. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 124 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 224 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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