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Bill: Assistance To The Poor In Regards To Medicine
Details
Submitted by[?]: Pseudocentrists
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: May 2204
Description[?]:
we do not want to totally subsidize medicine for the poor, encouraging economic stagnation, but we realize that karma affects us all and that sometimes people are in need and the government should make sure that the poor have a chance to become middle class with some effort. They can't do this if they aren't healthy. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government does not subsidise the cost of pharmaceutical drugs at all.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 18:49:14, March 22, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Assistance To The Poor In Regards To Medicine |
Message | People can insure themselves. |
Date | 20:36:54, March 22, 2006 CET | From | Modern Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Assistance To The Poor In Regards To Medicine |
Message | Insurance costs money, poor people do not have much money. That is the entire point of this bill. There may well be people who have to decide between paying their electricity bill and buying medicine. Or paying rent and buying medicine, no one should have to make that choice. |
Date | 23:05:19, March 22, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Assistance To The Poor In Regards To Medicine |
Message | What about the responsibility of the individual ? Just feeling sorry for the poor is not enough. May be your poor people do not give matters the right priority. May be they find your financial support more important than finding a decent job. |
Date | 01:07:53, March 23, 2006 CET | From | Modern Intellectual Party | To | Debating the Assistance To The Poor In Regards To Medicine |
Message | Clearly you have never been poor, neither have I but I have measure of empathy. Some people are born people, they live in poverty and they die poor, they work every day of their lives and nobody does anything to help them, especially not in this country where their solution to the problem of poor people is seemingly to deny them education, medicine, healthcare and housing, because being uneducated, ill and homeless will really help them find a job. |
Date | 07:11:17, March 23, 2006 CET | From | Partiya Rizgarî ya Bamenistan | To | Debating the Assistance To The Poor In Regards To Medicine |
Message | First of all. Having an opinion about agriculture does not automatically mean you must have been a farmer yourself. Secondly, the BLP do want to help the poorer strata of this nation but not by subsidizing all sorts of things but by creating enough opportunities related to education and jobs. Furthermore, taxes are reduced which means more spending power. Most important though is responsibility of citizens to support themselves and not to rely on state benefits. We compliment the MIP for their efforts to help the poor but we believe you need to change your focus and recognize that some people will stay poor but did had the opportunity to do something about it. |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes | Total Seats: 281 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 469 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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