Healthcare in Your Nation
Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:02 pm
How does healthcare work in your nation? Is it a fully private system? Is it single-payer universal? Is it a two-tier system, combining the former two? Is it something else entirely? A sort of Frankenstein's monster hybrid of the former two?
The New Earth Republic maintains a single-payer universal health care system modeled on the National Health Service of the United Kingdom. Prescription drugs are provided but a dispensing fee must still be payed. Private practices are allowed and citizens may go to them for faster-but-more expensive treatment rather than rely on the Republic Health Service, which may take 6 weeks or more for treatment. The Republic Health System is paid for by the federal government, but individual territorial governments administrate it locally. It is paid for by general federal spending, encompassing about 16% of annual federal spending and 8% of the Republic's gross domestic product.
The Republic Health System is managed by the Health Directorate, which also controls the approval and patenting of drugs and negotiates prices for the RHS. The Health Directorate also shares authority over the Republic Emergency Management Agency alongside the Infrastructure Directorate and Policing Directorate. Finally, the Health Directorate also institutes the eugenics program of the New Earth Republic and is in charge of regulating human augmentation technology. The semi-autonomous Augmentation Authority exists for this purpose and several proposals to make an independent Augmentation Directorate have been considered, though they were rejected.
Of the four major political fronts, only the Liberal Front truly wishes to change this system (in favor of a more privatization). Both the Progressive and Conservative Fronts are both supportive of the status quo, while the Populists wish to take the universal healthcare idea even further and outlaw all private medical care. As the Health Directorate itself is overwhelmingly in favor of single-payer universal healthcare, even the Liberals are rarely willing to push against them and actually try to implement private healthcare; it's more a political statement than a legitimate policy goal.
The New Earth Republic maintains a single-payer universal health care system modeled on the National Health Service of the United Kingdom. Prescription drugs are provided but a dispensing fee must still be payed. Private practices are allowed and citizens may go to them for faster-but-more expensive treatment rather than rely on the Republic Health Service, which may take 6 weeks or more for treatment. The Republic Health System is paid for by the federal government, but individual territorial governments administrate it locally. It is paid for by general federal spending, encompassing about 16% of annual federal spending and 8% of the Republic's gross domestic product.
The Republic Health System is managed by the Health Directorate, which also controls the approval and patenting of drugs and negotiates prices for the RHS. The Health Directorate also shares authority over the Republic Emergency Management Agency alongside the Infrastructure Directorate and Policing Directorate. Finally, the Health Directorate also institutes the eugenics program of the New Earth Republic and is in charge of regulating human augmentation technology. The semi-autonomous Augmentation Authority exists for this purpose and several proposals to make an independent Augmentation Directorate have been considered, though they were rejected.
Of the four major political fronts, only the Liberal Front truly wishes to change this system (in favor of a more privatization). Both the Progressive and Conservative Fronts are both supportive of the status quo, while the Populists wish to take the universal healthcare idea even further and outlaw all private medical care. As the Health Directorate itself is overwhelmingly in favor of single-payer universal healthcare, even the Liberals are rarely willing to push against them and actually try to implement private healthcare; it's more a political statement than a legitimate policy goal.