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Bill: Drug Industry Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Renewal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes to change the allocation of funds in the budget. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2336
Description[?]:
| This bill will implement phase one of the creation of a private drug market. Part of the budget surplus will pay for the short-term cost increase associated with deregulated prices that occures before market forces can come into effect. |
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 does not subsidize research and development of prescription drugs but regulates their prices.
Proposed: The government subsidizes research and development of prescription drugs but does not regulate their prices.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Pharmaceutical drugs policy.
Old value:: The government pays for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs.
Current: The government supplies free pharmaceutical drugs to those on low incomes.
Proposed: The government pays partially for all citizens' pharmaceutical drugs, and pays entirely for those of low income citizens.
Article 3
| Ministry | Current Budget | Old Budget | Propesed Budget |
| Head of Government | 750,000,000 END | 100,000 END | 100,000 END |
| Foreign Affairs | 4,500,000,000 END | 100,258,798 END | 100,258,798 END |
| Internal Affairs | 9,500,000,000 END | 8,313,300,000 END | 8,313,300,000 END |
| Finance | 1,000,000,000 END | 3,313,300,000 END | 3,313,300,000 END |
| Defence | 32,000,000,000 END | 6,626,600,000 END | 6,626,600,000 END |
| Justice | 11,500,000,000 END | 3,310,300,000 END | 3,310,300,000 END |
| Infrastructure and Transport | 22,000,000,000 END | 10,750,000,000 END | 10,750,000,000 END |
| Health and Social Services | 58,500,000,000 END | 52,393,200,000 END | 54,893,200,000 END |
| Education and Culture | 30,000,000,000 END | 39,053,200,000 END | 39,053,200,000 END |
| Science and Technology | 8,000,000,000 END | 9,821,280,000 END | 9,821,280,000 END |
| Food and Agriculture | 4,000,000,000 END | 10,225,320,000 END | 10,225,320,000 END |
| Environment and Tourism | 4,000,000,000 END | 5,038,620,000 END | 5,038,620,000 END |
| Trade and Industry | 6,000,000,000 END | 4,512,660,000 END | 4,512,660,000 END |
| Total | 191,750,000,000 END | 153,458,138,798 END | 155,958,138,798 END |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:00:54, December 28, 2006 CET | From |  Orange Party | To | Debating the Drug Industry Reform Act |
| Message | This bill is contradictory. So, we are allowing for medicine costs to go unregulated, and then the government is to pay for them? This means that tax payers will pay more, and more money has to go into private pharmaceutical industries from the government. We shouldn't be changing law so that the government has to pay more money to private industry for drugs that we should have control over. It does not matter if it may cost more to pay for everyone's goods, but to make them pay taxes for increasing drug prices and to expect them to pay for drugs we are subsidizing does not make sense. We are funding a funnel of funds. |
| Date | 03:44:58, December 29, 2006 CET | From | Renewal Party | To | Debating the Drug Industry Reform Act |
| Message | In the short term, costs may increase because there will only be the companies that previously had contracts with the government. Once there are customers other than the government, more companies will arise which will lead to long term price decreases. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 211 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 39 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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