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Bill: The Healthcare Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partido Social Liberal (PSL) 🌎
Status[?]: passed
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: November 5396
Description[?]:
| This bill aims to reform the healthcare system towards enabling private participation and amplifying individual choices. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is private, but the government subsidises the cost of it for all citizens.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
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.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The recreational drug policy.
Old value:: There are no laws regulating what citizens can put into their bodies.
Current: Recreational drug use is forbidden.
Proposed: The use of cannabis is legal.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy towards smoking.
Old value:: Smoking is legal outdoors and in private homes and clubs, but illegal indoors in all places of employment.
Current: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner. However, service/employer property owners that allow smoking must provide a separate non-smoking section.
Proposed: Smoking is legal everywhere, at the discretion of the property owner. However, service/employer property owners that allow smoking must provide a separate non-smoking section.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:06:22, November 19, 2023 CET | From | Partido Social Liberal (PSL) 🌎 | To | Debating the The Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | We believe that this act is of utmost importance for the country by the following reasons regarding: - Article 1: There should exist a robust public option for healthcare, it should not, however, be limitations towards the existence of competent private companies in the area as a way to ensure the effectiveness of both the public and private insurance companies through competition. - Article 2: It should be clearly stated the desire of the deceased regarding it's posthumous integrity, it is ungiving for th government to assume the deceased persons desire over their own body. - Article 3:There should be no subsidy unless necessary, in order to not cause unnecessary burden to the government finances. If there is no big damage to a persons revenue by purchasing pharmaceutical drugs, then it should not be obligatory for the government to pay for it. - Article 4: There should be a government policy regarding drug usage, it should be illegal to consume heavy drugs as recreational drugs, it should not, however, be prohibited the usage of light drugs which cause no heavy impact in individual or societal integrity. - Article 5: People shouldn't be prohibited to smoke if there is no problem between both parties for one to smoke. It should however, as a way to prevent smoking accidents and to avoid any discomfort for the whole public, to provide a smoking area. |
| Date | 21:52:10, November 19, 2023 CET | From | Poder Popular | To | Debating the The Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | Article 2 is already part of a bill that would take effect sooner than this one. So, as a matter of coherency, we ask that this article be taken away, so that we can vote in the affirmative in regards to the other parts of this bill. |
| Date | 22:20:21, November 19, 2023 CET | From | Partido Social Liberal (PSL) 🌎 | To | Debating the The Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | I'm terribly sorry by missing out on the fact that Article 2 was already included in a previous accepted bill. I fear, however, that since the bill has proceeded to a vote already, that it is not possible to amend the bill. I'd like to inquire if the incoherence present in the bill would make it impossible for the bill to be passed. |
| Date | 03:00:07, November 20, 2023 CET | From | Poder Popular | To | Debating the The Healthcare Reform Act |
| Message | Taken that into account the PSL's point, we will vote in the affirmative sense |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 350 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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