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Bill: Health Reform Pack
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kazulian Labour 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: March 2278
Description[?]:
| Reforms for health. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: Health care is entirely public and free; private clinics are banned.
Current: 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.
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 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Current: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:15:49, September 01, 2006 CET | From |  Communist Party of Kazulia | To | Debating the Health Reform Pack |
| Message | How are you socialist if you continue to privatise healthcare, housing, industries, and allow people to go without medical care due to fear of expenses? |
| Date | 05:45:50, September 02, 2006 CET | From | Kazulian Labour Party | To | Debating the Health Reform Pack |
| Message | We are not totally privatizing health care, we are just allowing for some of the clinics to be private (under strict regulation), while continuing the free single-payer health care system... which is attacked in the United States as "socialized medicine", by the way. We would still be paying for the pharmaceutical drugs of most people under the plan, including all poor people, but we don't see a need to waste government money providing pharmaceuticals to the rich, who can buy them perfectly well. As for me being a socialist...well if New Labour can call itself socialist with a straight face, then I certainly can. |
| Date | 05:49:31, September 02, 2006 CET | From | Kazulian Labour Party | To | Debating the Health Reform Pack |
| Message | As for a planned economy, I would invite you to notice that in all places where it has been tried, it has proved a disastrous faliure. Most of the parties of the real-life Socialist International don't support a completly governmentaly run economy and in fact some of them (such as New Labour) have even accepted Thatcherite reforms...although I feel this to be a mistake. |
| Date | 05:58:43, September 02, 2006 CET | From | Kazulian Labour Party | To | Debating the Health Reform Pack |
| Message | The Thatcherite reforms part, that is. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 68 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 32 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not approve a Cultural Protocol request within the first 48 hours of it being requested. This is in order to give other players a chance to query the proposed changes, if they wish to do so. Moderation may be approached for advice on a proposed change, but any advice proffered should always be understood under the provisio that no final decision will be made until at least 48 hours after the request has been formally submitted for approval. |
| Random quote: "It is the hallmark of great society to debate and disagree without resorting to violence." - Mathew Jameson, former Hutorian politician |