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Bill: Privatization of Health Care Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Söhne der Freiheit
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: February 2080
Description[?]:
| We believe that a public health care system only leads to more beuracracy and waste in the government. The best way to ensure quality is by having clinics put up with paying customers, and those giving it charitably out of the goodness of their heart. It's been shown that forcing people to pay for a service that has no incentive to better itself, yet receives pay, is wasteful and inefficient. Health care will still be provided for those who would otherwise be unable to afford it, though. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Health care policy.
Old value:: 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.
Current: There is a public health care system, but private clinics are allowed.
Proposed: Health care is private, but is paid for by the state for people with low incomes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:23:08, July 07, 2005 CET | From | mutt Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | What is the point? Thats virtually the same as the current. No from us. |
| Date | 18:27:59, July 07, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | But it's unfair to people who have to go in frequently because of illnesses that are beyond their control. |
| Date | 20:03:24, July 07, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | But shouldn't we sunsidize those who really need it? Right now the only way things can be financed is by laying taxes on the middle class, and then giving it back to them....instead let us take whatever we have, aand give to the poor....Or actually why don't we make a 10 year grant under the H&S Act to a charity that could disburse funds to deserving candidates, like those who would go in often because of diseases beyond their control |
| Date | 20:06:11, July 07, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | If the rich can afford it, great! Let the middle and lower classes have their universal healthcare! |
| Date | 02:59:22, July 08, 2005 CET | From | Söhne der Freiheit | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | As written in the proposal, the government will still subsidize the poor and lower-middle-class. |
| Date | 07:27:58, July 08, 2005 CET | From | Proletariat Revolution Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | Leave the system as two-tiered. |
| Date | 19:27:07, July 11, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | But SLP it doesn't make sense...subsidise the middle class with their own money?? I'm sure you see something wrong there?? |
| Date | 07:19:58, July 12, 2005 CET | From | People's Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | Mutt- This proposal will improve healthcare all around, and not just in rich areas....and we can target the really needy section of society...giving them a much better quality of care |
| Date | 10:57:12, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Right Wing Liberals Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | ill support as long as the 'less well off' get subsidised. |
| Date | 13:20:11, July 12, 2005 CET | From | Edelweiss Party | To | Debating the Privatization of Health Care Act |
| Message | No! Health care has to be public, government regulated and free |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 134 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 126 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 65 |
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