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Bill: Healthcare Reform - PLP
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberal 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: July 4246
Description[?]:
Dear Members of our Senate Privatizing healthcare means no cost on infrastructure as this falls under the hospital itself then. This generates money that can be used to give healthcare for free. Further the government will also check that a hospital makes no profit margin higher then 5%. This because a hospital is working with and for people. The reason they exist should be to help people. Not to make huge profits. Hospitals can get taxcuts from the government if they can show us that they invest regularly in new equipment and research etc so our health care doesn't stop innovating. The government should also help everyone who needs medication. That's why we propose that everyone earning less then 18000SOL a year should get his/her medication payed back by a 100%. People earning morge then 18000 SOL and less then 35000 SOL should get IT payed back by 75%. Everyone earning more then 35000 SOLgets it payed back by 50%. Thank you. Justan Trudo |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: 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.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Current: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
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 | 22:20:28, July 23, 2017 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | Bruce Miller (Shinatawa): A 5% cap on profit for hospital and healthcare facilities is far too low of a margin for private institutions to survive, much less obtain new equipment. Our party stands completely opposed to a full privitisation of healthcare. We advocate a mixed system to ensure good and fair coverage for ALL citizens. |
| Date | 22:22:45, July 23, 2017 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | Bruce Miller (Shinatawa): We also believe that the middle classes and lower income earners should not be paying for the richer income brackets who earn adequately more than enough to fund their coverage. We however applaud any efforts at reform as we have not yet reached an equitable and workable system. |
| Date | 22:25:56, July 23, 2017 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | Buying equipment and offering services is not payed by the profit margin. It's one of the costs where you still have to put a profit margin on. As it is a cost it is calculated in to the price without profit yet. Peter Mertens PLP |
| Date | 22:30:15, July 23, 2017 CET | From | Labour Republican Party(LRP) | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | Low income families or poor families should not pay any cent for healthcare..We disagree with it |
| Date | 22:35:00, July 23, 2017 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | Many firms reinvest profit into their business to improve service. It is most common in smaller businesses who have not yet established themselves. But if the PLP wishes to destroy smaller clinics, freeze the growth of the most effective, and leave us with a handful of large, inefficient corporations to provide all healthcare who feed at the trough of government subsidisation then no reason will reach them. |
| Date | 22:35:32, July 23, 2017 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | In response to LRP. Take a better look at our bill. "The government should also help everyone who needs medication. That's why we propose that everyone earning less then 18000SOL a year should get his/her medication payed back by a 100%." |
| Date | 22:36:51, July 23, 2017 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | What margin is SUN proposing then? |
| Date | 01:44:21, July 24, 2017 CET | From |  AnNAP | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | A public healthcare system guarantees every citizen healthcare. We will not support any measure that dismantles this. |
| Date | 01:22:29, July 25, 2017 CET | From | SUN | To | Debating the Healthcare Reform - PLP |
| Message | No restriction on profit margin. We want to enable successful business, not destroy it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 88 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 404 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 8 |
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