Healthcare Resolution

[Thunderous Doliporath]

Hello, please approve my WA Resolution to provide affordable healthcare, and in a better way than USA's debates about it!

[Kenmoria]

Affordable Healthcare and Health Insurance Act
Category: Health AoE: Healthcare

Hereby acknowledging the expense of healthcare as one that not everyone may be able to afford, and hereby reducing the price of healthcare with low cost for taxpayers and the private sector unless absolutely necessary.

Article I
Hereby defining "healthcare" as the process of caring for one in case of serious injury, and defining "health insurance"as companies that citizens pay to recieve currency to pay for medical bills.

Article II
Hereby Reducing all World Assembly Nations' healthcare and health insurance by 25% and 40% respectively.

Article III
Acknowledging the effects of Article II as a means to reduce healthcare costs and, if still unaffordable, reduced health insurance prices to allow a medical bill reduction through Article I's definition of health insurance.

Article IV
Hereby allowing, if citizens are federal employees, a World Assembly nation's government to pay for health insurance if requested, and said government required to pay for greater than 50% of the federal employee's medical bill.

Article V
Hereby recognizing that while prices are reduced, not everyone can afford healthcare or health insurance or both.

Hereby providing universally reduced healthcare and health insurance prices to all World Assembly Nations.

(OOC: Welcome to the General Assembly. This is an excellent first draft, though it should have been drafted on the forums first. For example, article II doesn’t take into account healthcare insurance that is already very low, or that is so high this makes little difference. For that reason, I encourage you to withdraw the proposal and post a draft here.)

[Bananaistan]

OOC: I've marked this illegal in respect of contradiction of GAR#97 Quality in Health Services. Article IV contradicts the provision in GAR#97 which allows member nations to allow private sector involvement in their health sector entirely at their own discretion.

... federal ...

NS =/= RL and RL =/= USA. Most nations are not organised on a federal basis and federal is not synonymous with national.

Article II percentages are meaningless. Reduce what healthcare by 25%? The cost? Or maybe reduce the entire healthcare budget by 25%, or close quarter of the hospitals, sack quarter of the employees?

[Grays Harbor]

New Affordable Healthcare And Health Insurance Act

A resolution to modify universal standards of healthcare.

Category: Health

Area of Effect: Healthcare

Proposed by: Thunderous Doliporath

This act will hereby reduce the prices of healthcare and health insurance without cost to taxpayers.

Article I
Hereby defines “healthcare” as any and all treatments for any and all serious injuries. Also hereby defines “health insurance” as companies that compensate citizens of any World Assembly nation in order to cover their medical bills. Further defining “serious injuries as anything proclaimed by a licensed doctor very harmful or life threatening.

Article II
Hereby reduces healthcare and health insurance prices by 25% and 40% respectively.

Article III
Acknowledging that the private sector may be the benefactor of paying the medical bills of any World Assembly nation’s citizens if they wish it so, in accordance with World Assembly law.

Article IV
Requiring at least 35% of federal employee medical bills to be paid by the government of any World Assembly nation, and requiring that all federal employees have health insurance of any health insurance plan they wish.

Article V
Requiring health insurance companies to allow ALL health insurance plans to cover ALL serious injuries.

Article VI
Acknowledging that while Articles II through V help in lower medical expenses, not everyone can afford healthcare or health insurance or both.

Hereby providing less expensive healthcare and health insurance services for all World Assembly nations.

OOC: Resubmitted, with little substantive change. Please do not resubmit again until this has undergone significant drafting, because as this currently stands it is simplistic and naive. I will remind you, as has been done previously, NS =/= US

[Bears Armed]

OOC
The 'Healthcare' area-of-effect improves public health by increasing government spending on the matter. It is doubtful whether this proposal does either of those things.