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Bill: Just healthcare reform act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sameinuðu vinnumarkaður(United Labour)
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: March 4609
Description[?]:
| It is the hallmark of any great nation that its citizen, whether of humble backgrounds or not, is of a robust, healthy and good disposition. Physically and mentally. That goal however can only be achieved if the nation as a whole strives towards it. Health is no private matter, for when it is it is left to the whims of charlatans, quacks and charity. That cannot be tolerated. While our nation has a good healthcare system there is still liberal tendencies we need to root out. Our proposal will make healthcare a right, make medicine and vaccine readily available for all and base policy’s regarding individuals health on actual science. If passed this bill will tackle the scourge on our land that is unequal access to healthcare. Many people find that medicine is still too expensive, because fare to few is protected by the governments subsidies policy. We still find how children are no vaccinated due to superstition or conspiracy from the parents, not only endangering their own children but also children who due to legitimate, reasonable medical reasons can’t be vaccinated. And we tackle the problem that due to the fact that healthcare is private, the clinics are mostly based on where they can make the most money not where they are needed most. And lastly, we clarify laws regarding drugs and abortion. With this bill we base healthcare on need, not market shares. We base it on science, not superstition. We base it as something that is a right, not a commodity or privilege. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the first and second trimesters.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Current: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Proposed: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Article 3
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 for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: Recreational drug use is regulated by local governments.
Current: All naturally occurring drugs are legal.
Proposed: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Article 5
Proposal[?] to change Government policy on surrogacy
Old value:: Surrogacy is legal, and surrogacy agreements are enforceable. Altruistic and gainful surrogacy is legal.
Current: Surrogacy is legal, and surrogacy agreements are enforceable. Altruistic and gainful surrogacy is legal.
Proposed: Surrogacy is illegal.
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on vaccinations.
Old value:: The government mandates vaccination for all children, but parents may opt out for religious or ideological reasons.
Current: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Proposed: The government mandates vaccination for all children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:41:18, July 19, 2019 CET | From | Landsbyggðarflokkurinn (RP) | To | Debating the Just healthcare reform act |
| Message | Speaker, The Labour Party's bill is welcome, however, the ruling LP holds issue with several of the proposals. Article 1: There is much to commend a public health system; however, the previous one was horribly mismanaged and expensive. By having the system be private while providing a public insurance option, this Government has shown that mismanaged and expensive, bloated, and redundant health facilities are no longer feeding off public coffers. This law we cannot allow to pass as it is. Article 2: The Government believes this is too generous and redundant. Taxing the public and using this tax money to pay for their pills merely adds an inefficient middleman to the mix. Article 3: This law change as proposed the LP vehemently opposes. Mandating that people put things in the bodies of they or their children is against the very freedoms the LP believes that God has given mankind. Article 4: This is a sensible proposal that the LP supports. Article 5: The LP does not understand why Labour does not wish for people who cannot have children have someone else carry their child. Article 6: This the LP cannot approve. Allowing local governments decide this policy allows for the greatest voice of the people to be heard. The State governments are in the best positions to determine the legalization or criminalization, and enforcement of such laws as they see fit. Hannes Thorlacius Gunnlaugsson Fist Minister |
| Date | 09:58:58, July 19, 2019 CET | From | Sameinuðu vinnumarkaður(United Labour) | To | Debating the Just healthcare reform act |
| Message | Speaker, The liberal party support is only lip service, for the core of the bill they oppose. It is regrettable that the Liberals want to gut healthcare and is more inclined to keep spending on people’s well-being to a bare minimum. While we in Labour agrees that there is such a thing as overspending and wastefulness that should surely also mean that there is such a thing as an underspending and plain cheapness. And I would tolerate that underspending and cheapness from the Liberals if they would be consistence enough to decry overspending in tax cuts for the rich. This bill will make healthcare and medicine free for all. It will allow good health to be something for all, not the few – a right, rather than a commodity. It is time for the hard working people of this nation to take share in our great wealth and what better way to start than that of free healthcare for all? Selma Steinsdottir, Leader of the United Labour Front |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |
| no | Total Seats: 250 | |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Submitting a bill without any proposals in it will not attract or detract voters. It will not raise your visibility or change your political position. |
| Random quote: "The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." - Aristotle |