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Bill: Anti BigPharma Bill 2198
Details
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: January 2199
Description[?]:
| To ensure that prices are regulated for all forms of pharmaceutical drug, but that the government does not waste money on greedy and deceptive drug companies and their supposed "research". This would allign us with the Terran Psychopharma Treaty that is cutting down on the antitrust and monopolising activities of the Big Pharmas in Terra and would also encourage more genuine research into non-drug forms of healing. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The research and development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Old value:: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Current: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs and regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government does not subsidize research and development of prescription drugs but regulates their prices.
Article 2
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 pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Proposed: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:45:20, March 11, 2006 CET | From | Bloc Socialiste | To | Debating the Anti BigPharma Bill 2198 |
| Message | This bill denies the right of all citizens to cost-effective medical treatment. We oppose. |
| Date | 17:50:24, March 11, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Anti BigPharma Bill 2198 |
| Message | No it doesn't. Government is and will continue to regulate prices. For valid, medical diseases, prices of necessary drug treatments would be minimal so all could benefit. |
| Date | 03:21:37, March 12, 2006 CET | From | Bloc Socialiste | To | Debating the Anti BigPharma Bill 2198 |
| Message | Who are you to determine whether or not a disease is valid? Low-income people will lose almost all access to drugs that fight diseases like HIV/AIDS, cancer, and even simple infections as well as recognised diseases such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and other mental disorders. |
| Date | 12:40:40, March 12, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Anti BigPharma Bill 2198 |
| Message | That is not true. HIV/AIDS, cancer, and simple infections can be tested for - they are valid medical conditions. Schizophrenia, bipolar and other "mental disorders" are not medically recognised - there are no tests that can be done to show that they are medical in origin and the drugs used to "treat" said conditions are highly toxic and dangerous for the individual with a whole host of barbaric side-effects. There is ample evidence that even the most major of mental ills can be handled very effectively without the use of these harmful drugs - the government should invest in alternative healing that is safe and workable and not further line the pockets of greedy drug companies that rake profits off the idea that one "needs" a pill to cure a psychological problem. OOC refs: 1.Effective Mood Stabilization With a Chelated Mineral Supplement: An Open-Label Trial in Bipolar (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 62:12, December 2001). 2. Commentary: Do Vitamins or Minerals (Apart From Lithium) Have Mood-Stabilizing Effects? (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 62:933-935, December 2001). 3.Treatment of Mood Lability and Explosive Rage with Minerals and Vitamins: Two Case Studies in Children, (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology Volume 12(3): 203-218, 2002). 4.Nutritional Approach to Bipolar Disorder, (Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 64:3, March 2003). 5.Improved Mood and Behavior During Treatment with a Mineral-Vitamin Supplement: An Open-Label Case Series of Children (Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Volume 14, Number 1, 2004). 6.http://www.alternativementalhealth.com/articles/default.htm 7.Soteria and Other Alternatives to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (187:142-149, 1999). 8.Treatment of Acute Psychosis Without Neuroleptics: Two-Year Outcomes From the Soteria Project, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (191: 219–229, 2003) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 146 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 337 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 70 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "A democracy that does not allow limits is not a democracy. Just as a limitless freedom is not freedom, but prevarication. Indeed, any theory of freedom worthy of this name is first of all a limit theory. If we extend the unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not willing to defend a tolerant society against the attacks of the intolerants, then the tolerants will be destroyed and the tolerance with them! Because, I ask to myself and ask you, given a certain system that we call democratic, which is today the best possible system to allow everyone to live freely and to be able to express their own thoughts, how can the same system admit attacks against its integrity? How can a system refuse the principle of the self-preservation? For this reason, to suppress the apologetics of thalerrism, it's for this reason that the exaltation of exegetes, principles, facts or methods of Thallerism and its anti-democratic aims does not constitute a violation of the freedom of manifestation of thought, but, on the contrary, the celebration of that freedom. The protection of the first premise on which a modern democratic system is based. And this premise must be safeguarded also and above all against itself and its abuses." ~ Malik Astori, Leadership of Liberty and Progress (Istalia) |