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Bill: Pharm Aid
Details
Submitted by[?]: Keymon Green Party
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: May 2249
Description[?]:
| In order to improve the health of the poorest Keymonians, we propose subsidizing a portion of the costs of prescription drugs for anyone earning less than 6,000 KED per year. Subsidies will cover 25% of the cost of drugs, up to a maximum of 50 KED per year. Local governments may, if they choose, add to this subsidy. |
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 pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
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 | 09:40:37, July 02, 2006 CET | From |  Keymon Green Party | To | Debating the Pharm Aid |
| Message | The 6,000 KED figure was chosen as the cutoff because it is the mean income of our lowest income bracket. (6,002 to be technical, but we rounded off). We estimate about 10% of the population, or approx. 75,000 people, would make less than 6,000 KED. If they all took the maximum subsidy, that would cost us 3.75 million KED per year. However, it will likely cost less, as not everyone uses prescription drugs, and not all those who do will need the maximum subsidy. We estimate that a budget of 2.5 million KED for the program would be sufficient. This program is important because it will increase the productivity and health of our poorest citizens, who will then be better able to work hard and earn more money to help pull themselves out of poverty. |
| Date | 09:41:54, July 02, 2006 CET | From | Keymon Green Party | To | Debating the Pharm Aid |
| Message | PS - this is the last bill of the post-election flurry for now, promise! :-) |
| Date | 19:43:50, July 02, 2006 CET | From | Christian Democrats | To | Debating the Pharm Aid |
| Message | "We estimated that a prescription drug subsidy would require 18 million KED per year, but our subsidy program was 100 KED for the poorest citizens and included overhead costs to distribute the program. However, your program could probably be run on 5 million KED or less, and the increase in taxes should cover that." -- Director General Vivanne Dynamis, policy wonk |
| Date | 02:27:31, July 03, 2006 CET | From | Just as Silly party | To | Debating the Pharm Aid |
| Message | The JAS would insist on an agressive Drug Utilization Review, as well as a strong Fraud, Waste, and Abuse controls for people the government is subsidizing their medications. NO free lunch if it's not clincially warranted, and clearly the best efficacy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 66 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 18 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 20 |
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