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Bill: Pharmaceutical Drugs Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia
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 4259
Description[?]:
| Members of Congress, Pharmaceutical drugs should be a right to all citizens to be provided free of charge. Otis Varnham Health and Social Services Spokesperson of the Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:34:32, August 18, 2017 CET | From | Baltusian Green Alliance | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drugs Bill |
| Message | Members of Congress, Pharmaceuticals, just like everything else requiring labour and/or capital to produce is not a right, it is a good/service provided by someone else, with their invested labour, time, effort and capital, expecting something in return. Hence it cannot be free, someone has to pay for that and why should the taxpayer, who may not use the drugs in question, pay for someone else? So we urge everyone to vote against this immoral populist scam. Karl Hare, Whip of the Baltusian Green Alliance |
| Date | 01:01:00, August 19, 2017 CET | From | Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia | To | Debating the Pharmaceutical Drugs Bill |
| Message | Mr Hare, Everything requires labour and capital to produce, for example water. But we still consider that a basic right which is funded by the taxpayer. I would advise you that the people who are receiving the free drugs are in fact the taxpayers themselves and that consequently they will be using the drugs in question. I do not see why providing drugs funded by taxation is immoral unless you believe taxation is immoral? This will lower the costs of the average household. Obviously a piece of legislation cannot be populist however you are correct in that it is proposed by a populist party, which we pride ourselves in being. I do not see how slightly increasing taxes so as that the average household is paying less is a scam. A scam is defined as a "dishonest scheme." and we are being entirely honest about what we are proposing. Otis Varnham Health and Social Services Spokesperson of the Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 189 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 411 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| 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 am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes." - Winston Churchill |