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Bill: Healthcare Restoration Act 4378
Details
Submitted by[?]: Civic Republican League of Rutania
Status[?]: passed
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 4379
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:58:55, April 14, 2018 CET | From | Civic Republican League of Rutania | To | Debating the Healthcare Restoration Act 4378 |
| Message | Open for debate. |
| Date | 13:13:04, April 15, 2018 CET | From | The Reason | To | Debating the Healthcare Restoration Act 4378 |
| Message | The Reason disagrees. Private initiative has proved to be the best solution, in providing healthcare to the same extent as in any other industry. |
| Date | 17:13:10, April 15, 2018 CET | From |  Democratic Socialist Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Healthcare Restoration Act 4378 |
| Message | Comrades, "The Reason" are wrong on a number of counts. Empirically, healthcare systems work most efficiently where they are predominantly or wholly state-owned and run, and where they are mostly or completely subsidised. This rids the industry of the need for costs related to advertising, the selling of insurance, the processing of payments, the enforcement of penalties for non-payment, lengthy and complex court cases on the coverage of policies, etc. A unified national health service also has greater power to negotiate the prices it pays for pharmaceuticals and wages and salaries for staff. From the patient's point of view, of course, we can also do away with the financial burden, and the stress and anxiety that goes along with that. Plus the patient will not have a reason to forgo vital treatment simply because they cannot afford it. Then of course there are the benefits of a co-ordinated approach to public health, for example vaccination, etc. We back this bill. |
| Date | 18:00:35, April 15, 2018 CET | From | The Reason | To | Debating the Healthcare Restoration Act 4378 |
| Message | In a proposed system health care is paid by people who do not need it and that would place a too great burden on tax paying people. And there are plenty of examples that prove that state-sponsored universal health care system is not cost-effective and is not able to provide adequate salary to both medical and supportive staff. In a system we currently have, people with low income get their treatment paid by the state, so your argument that people wouldn't receive the treatment they need just because they can't afford it is not valid. |
| Date | 18:56:40, April 15, 2018 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Party of Rutania | To | Debating the Healthcare Restoration Act 4378 |
| Message | "In a proposed system health care is paid by people who do not need it and that would place a too great burden on tax paying people." Everyone needs healthcare at some point. And in any case, in countries with socialised healthcare, healthcare is less per head, with better outcomes. "And there are plenty of examples that prove that state-sponsored universal health care system is not cost-effective and is not able to provide adequate salary to both medical and supportive staff." There are no such examples in the developed world. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 436 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 314 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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