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Bill: Pioneering Health Act
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: May 4700
Description[?]:
| Rationale: 1. a. Restricting abortion is not an effective means of preventing it, women desperate enough will seek it elsewhere in countries where it is legal or through illegal means. b. Women who seek abortions outside legal channels will often resort to unsafe abortions that carry a high risk of death, severe injury, and or causing permanent lifelong infertility. c. There are safer methods of discouraging abortions, such as through reproductive education and contraceptive use. d. Arguments against abortion derive from positions opposing personal autonomy in favour of enforcing subjective definitions of life on teenagers and adults. 2. a. The state has a rational economic interest in reducing the future number of unwanted children, including orphans. b. Abortions of fetuses with severe disabilities help reduce future health care expenditures, freeing up valuable funding for conditions that cannot currently be prevented. The cost of abortion is far less expensive than the cost of raising children. c. Making the funding universal reduces bureaucracy and red tape by eliminating the need to check for qualification. Universal policies also do not discriminate, giving a greater sense of fairness among different economic classes. 3. a. Private health care is more expensive than universal health care and discourages people from seeking regular appointments that are essential in ensuring preventative medicine. People skipping appointments leads to under-diagnosis of illnesses. Avoiding care to save money ends up costing citizens a lot more in the long-term. b. Combining a public and private health care system will lower costs, improve the well-being of our citizens, and still allow competition in the private sector. 4. a. Universal pharmacare is less expensive per capita since the government can use their power to negotiate for lower drug prices, it also encourages people not to forgo medication, and reduces the bureaucracy in the system that checks for economic qualifications (universality is a a streamlined approach). |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Policy on the legality of abortions
Old value:: Abortions are only allowed in medical emergencies.
Current: Abortion is allowed during the first trimester.
Proposed: Abortion is allowed during the entire course of the pregnancy.
Article 2
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 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.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Policy of the government concerning the funding of abortions
Old value:: The government only funds abortions for medical emergencies.
Current: The government only funds abortions for medical emergencies.
Proposed: The government provides funding for abortions.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Current: The government subsidises the cost of pharmaceutical drugs for people on low incomes.
Proposed: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 123 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 522 |
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