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Bill: Healthcare is about Health, not Money!
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 2213
Description[?]:
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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 | 23:47:23, April 08, 2006 CET | From | Dranland Progressive Conservatives | To | Debating the Healthcare is about Health, not Money! |
| Message | We are not sure what you meant with the title, as your bill seems to be about making people pay more money. |
| Date | 00:29:33, April 09, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Healthcare is about Health, not Money! |
| Message | Government should not be putting money into drug research the results of which can be manipulated by the pharmaceutical companies to support any outcome they desire. |
| Date | 02:45:23, April 09, 2006 CET | From | Social Liberal Party | To | Debating the Healthcare is about Health, not Money! |
| Message | The title of this bill is totally misrepresentative of the articles contained within. If this bill is passed, healthcare will become an even more money-oriented issue for our citizens, especially our nation's poor. |
| Date | 03:59:27, April 09, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Healthcare is about Health, not Money! |
| Message | Not at all as it quite clealrly states that government will still regulate prices, low if necessary. This bill prevents further control and corporate power by those greedy drug companies who mislead the public as to the efficacy of their drugs, use ghost-writers to promote them (sales reps who write a puff-piece "medical" article, who then pay off a doctor to use their name), fraudulent claims and abusive marketing schemes, huge "donations" to political parties (i see now why you are so keen to oppose this bill!!) all in the name of "healthcare". pfftf. Capitalist pigs of the worst kind! |
| Date | 08:24:26, April 09, 2006 CET | From | Plaid Gyfreithiol Cymru | To | Debating the Healthcare is about Health, not Money! |
| Message | This proposal will not work. If you want the companies to fund their own research, they have to have the freedom to charge what they want. Otherwise it will not be financially attractive to them to bother finding new drugs. Since allowing drug companies to charge what they want will mean higher prices for our public that is not an attractive option. We must continue to fund research and subsidise drugs, our Health Service must remain affardable. |
| Date | 13:13:48, April 09, 2006 CET | From | New Theta | To | Debating the Healthcare is about Health, not Money! |
| Message | For valid medical drugs we should regulate pricing so they are accessible to all. For psychiatric drugs that have no validity in medicine (especially when research shows that a placebo is more effective!) then they are free to charge what they want. But we will not be throwing government money on research on these abusive drugs. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 296 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 376 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 78 |
| Random fact: Particracy has 464 player slots. |
| Random quote: "We make war that we may live in peace." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics |