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Bill: Progressive Reform Bill - Privatized Healthcare
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive 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: March 2188
Description[?]:
| We propose to privatize the healthcare industries while still paying for the healthcare of our poorest citizens. The free market would intervene and would not create a disincentive for people to enter the healthcare industry because prices are artificially low. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
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.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:10:58, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Privatized Healthcare |
| Message | AM AAP believes this is a gesture entirely in the wrong direction. |
| Date | 15:49:33, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Privatized Healthcare |
| Message | The entire reason we had previously moved to introduce a two-tiered system was to help out those who needed it more; the middle class. This proposal only benefits the poor, who were covered as well under the current law. By introducing a private system, you're going to heavily affect the middle class who neither earn enough to make ends meet when dealing with steep medical costs, nor earn too little in order to be considered 'low income'. |
| Date | 15:56:05, February 15, 2006 CET | From | AM Radical Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Privatized Healthcare |
| Message | The drawback to the two tier system is that those who utilize the public system tend to get inferior care. However, that is not out of line with our Libertarian principles, since you get what you are willing/able to pay for. At this time, we will probably oppose this bill. |
| Date | 18:06:46, February 15, 2006 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Progressive Reform Bill - Privatized Healthcare |
| Message | Public systems don't automatically equate inferior care. If there is adequate funding, they can be quite a shining example for other systems that are looking for an exemplary model. By having a system which requires you to pay, people will hesitate in going to the doctor because they don't know if it is truly worth it. After all, that cough seems harmless, doesn't it? How do we know it's just a cough and nothing more? If we go, it costs money and that money will be wasted if there is noting serious, but if it is... and we don't, it could get worse. Public healthcare is good as a form of preventative medicine. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 169 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 253 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 78 |
| Random fact: Voters have an extra appreciation for bills that actually get passed, so if you want to maximally take profit from your votes, make sure you compromise with others. |
| Random quote: "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader |