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Bill: P.d.l. 03/4481 Healthcare Privatisation
Details
Submitted by[?]: PRO - Cittadini Progressisti
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: August 4482
Description[?]:
| Samira Pronti, AV Spokesperson on Healthcare: Honourable deputies, The current healthcare system is failing. Its costs are exceptionally high and with the current system of partial public healthcare we can simply not ensure progress in innovation and costs reduction, while the private health establishments are innovating quickly and provide its clients with i.e. new treatments, improved medicines etc. It is our believe that when the healthcare of this nation will be in the hands of private investors, innovation and efficiency will increase while the costs lay low, due to government oversight. We seek to implement a comprehensive system of healthcare insurance to make sure every Istalian has acces to quality healthcare. To make sure every Istalian gets health insurance, we must oblidge every health insurance company to provide any applicant* with a basic insurance. For further expansion of the insurance agreement, citizens can choose to commit to a more comprehensive insurance, which will be paired with a higher monthly healthcare insurance costs. To oversee the entire sector, we would like to seek more regulatory status for the already existing Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN). With this system, we can reduce overall healthcare costs, with no decrease in quality whatsoever. Also, we can use the free money to invest in public safety and education, which are in dire need of extra funds. *= anyone with Istalian citizenship residing in Istalia for at least two years in the last five years can be considered an applicant Thank you. |
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 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.
Proposed: Health care is entirely private.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:22:55, November 07, 2018 CET | From | Alleanza Radicale - NCD | To | Debating the P.d.l. 03/4481 Healthcare Privatisation |
| Message | Simona Andreani, AR: "Mr Speaker, a part all the ethical implications of such a measure, I would just like ask to our collegues of AV: why the State should oblige a private company to support mandatory basic insurance? Are they charitative organizations? We would like see the privates act as chartitable organizations, but this is not the reality and I think we cannot force a private to do so. We already demand many things to our private sector, this is too much. And how to assure not to have a fracture between the services offered between several category of citizens? We want see a society where only the rich can afford the best of the healthcare? This reform could be find our support if heavily modified so to graant equal and fair access and quality of healthcare for everyone" |
| Date | 14:54:28, November 07, 2018 CET | From | Nuova Unione | To | Debating the P.d.l. 03/4481 Healthcare Privatisation |
| Message | Olimpio Cassella, ULD President Simply put, this is the ethical option. This will help in the development of new technologies that will save the live of Istaliians. There are matters that leftists should consider unideological. Health is one of them. Please, we all want to save lives,. For that, we must all support this bill. |
| Date | 15:24:55, November 07, 2018 CET | From | PRO - Cittadini Progressisti | To | Debating the P.d.l. 03/4481 Healthcare Privatisation |
| Message | Samira Pronti, AV Spokesperson on Healthcare: ''Mr. Speaker, We understand the concerns raised by our collegues from the AR. To answer their questios, I feel that I must elucidate the system a little more. Health insurance in the proposal is mandatory. Healthcare in is covered by two statutory forms of insurance: - General Healthcare Insurance, often called ‘basic insurance’, covers common medical care. - Long Term Healthcare or LTH covers long-term nursing and care. While Istalian residents are automatically insured by the government for LTH, everyone has to take out their own basic healthcare insurance, except those under 18 who are automatically covered under their parents' premium. If you don’t take out insurance, you risk a fine. Insurers have to offer a universal package for everyone over the age of 18 years, regardless of age or state of health – it’s illegal to refuse an application or impose special conditionsv for basic insurances. In contrast to many other Majatran systems, the proposed system's government is responsible for the accessibility of the healthcare system in the country, but not in charge of its management. A key feature of this system is that premiums may not be related to health status or age. Risk variances between private health insurance companies due to the different risks presented by individual policy holders are compensated through risk equalization and a common risk pool. Funding for all short-term health care is 50% from employers, 45% from the insured person and 5% by the government. So basically all citizens have the obligation to seek health insurance, and health insurance companies have the obligation to offer at least one or more basic insurances that cover all basic healthcare costs at a reasonable price. Thank you |
| Date | 23:21:13, November 08, 2018 CET | From | Partito Nazionale Democratico | To | Debating the P.d.l. 03/4481 Healthcare Privatisation |
| Message | Nicollo Nachiavelli, PND Whip, This is definitely a step in the right direction, but our health service system needs a massive overhaul as the left structure clearly does not work optimally but we are not satisfied with the proposal of compulsory health insurance. On both ends: forcing the privazes to ensure and forcing the people to be ensured. |
| Date | 10:55:55, November 09, 2018 CET | From | Alleanza Radicale - NCD | To | Debating the P.d.l. 03/4481 Healthcare Privatisation |
| Message | Pino Cammino, AR: "Mr Speaker, it this reform will pass, the citizens would demand a "(RP) regulatory law of health care insurances" by part of the Government to officially regulate this field. In doing so, the Government will have to merge this: "To make sure every Istalian gets health insurance, we must oblidge every health insurance company to provide any applicant* with a basic insurance. For further expansion of the insurance agreement, citizens can choose to commit to a more comprehensive insurance, which will be paired with a higher monthly healthcare insurance costs. To oversee the entire sector, we would like to seek more regulatory status for the already existing Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (SSN). With this system, we can reduce overall healthcare costs, with no decrease in quality whatsoever. Also, we can use the free money to invest in public safety and education, which are in dire need of extra funds. *= anyone with Istalian citizenship residing in Istalia for at least two years in the last five years can be considered an applicant" With this: "Health insurance in the proposal is mandatory. Healthcare in is covered by two statutory forms of insurance: - General Healthcare Insurance, often called ‘basic insurance’, covers common medical care. - Long Term Healthcare or LTH covers long-term nursing and care. While Istalian residents are automatically insured by the government for LTH, everyone has to take out their own basic healthcare insurance, except those under 18 who are automatically covered under their parents' premium. If you don’t take out insurance, you risk a fine. Insurers have to offer a universal package for everyone over the age of 18 years, regardless of age or state of health – it’s illegal to refuse an application or impose special conditionsv for basic insurances. In contrast to many other Majatran systems, the proposed system's government is responsible for the accessibility of the healthcare system in the country, but not in charge of its management. A key feature of this system is that premiums may not be related to health status or age. Risk variances between private health insurance companies due to the different risks presented by individual policy holders are compensated through risk equalization and a common risk pool. Funding for all short-term health care is 50% from employers, 45% from the insured person and 5% by the government. So basically all citizens have the obligation to seek health insurance, and health insurance companies have the obligation to offer at least one or more basic insurances that cover all basic healthcare costs at a reasonable price." So to create a clear regulatory law. I think also that, due to the fact that AV collegues mentioned these regulatory laws (http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=506905 and http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=518726), the Government will have to merge also the provisions from these laws. We hope to see an adeguate work. However, we still continue to have our dubts. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 240 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 265 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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