FT 15.05 - Medical Price Control Act (LAW)

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AN ACT
to guarantee fair and affordable medical coverage for all people

Section 1 (Title)
i. The title of this Act shall be, the "Medical Price Control Act."

Section 2 (Price cap)
i. No hospital, clinic, practice, or other medical provider may charge for any service, procedure, or product in excess of 100% the real cost to the provider.

Section 3 (Enforcement)
i. For any provider found to have violated the provisions of this Act, the penalty for the first offense shall be probationary oversight by the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MHHS) for twenty-four months.
ii. The penalty for the second offense shall be revocation of the relevant medical or pharmaceutical license.
iii. The Commonwealth Insurance Commissioner shall have full power to enforce the provisions of this Act.

Section 4 (Implementation)
i. This legislation shall take effect 1 January 2021.

Sponsor: Harry S Truman, FM (Fianna Frémont—Labor, North Dakota)

The first minister now has the floor.

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To be honest, maybe we could afford it by providing more government funding to Frémont hospitals?

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To be honest, maybe we could afford it by providing more government funding to Frémont hospitals?

Forgive my lack of perception, but what exactly is the "it" we could maybe afford?

The commonwealth's hospitals being able to not fall into massive debt.

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To be honest, maybe we could afford it by providing more government funding to Frémont hospitals?

Forgive my lack of perception, but what exactly is the "it" we could maybe afford?

The commonwealth's hospitals being able to not fall into massive debt.

So, are you proposing that the region pay hospitals' administrative expenses?

For the most part, yeah. While I am a huge supporter of giving Frémonters fair hospital bills that aren't needlessly expensive, the hospitals still need someone to pay the staff, buy equipment, pay for the building and its maintenance, et cetera. This is a good idea, hospitals shouldn't charge outrageously high prices to its patience, but they still need to break a little even. I'd say either use tax money or have the hospitals rely on donations, unless if you have a better way to fund it.

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To be honest, maybe we could afford it by providing more government funding to Frémont hospitals?

Forgive my lack of perception, but what exactly is the "it" we could maybe afford?

The commonwealth's hospitals being able to not fall into massive debt.

So, are you proposing that the region pay hospitals' administrative expenses?

For the most part, yeah. While I am a huge supporter of giving Frémonters fair hospital bills that aren't needlessly expensive, the hospitals still need someone to pay the staff, buy equipment, pay for the building and its maintenance, et cetera. This is a good idea, hospitals shouldn't charge outrageously high prices to its patience, but they still need to break a little even. I'd say either use tax money or have the hospitals rely on donations, unless if you have a better way to fund it.

Well, the idea behind this bill is that the expenses you mentioned would be included in the calculation of the "real cost" to the provider. But I'm certainly open to discussing public funding as well, if parliament would rather go in that direction! (Perhaps that would answer the member from Washington's quibbles as well.)

Ah, I understand now. It is a good idea. However, maybe we could give the hospitals a wee bit more dough to spend on stuff that would be spent outside treating specific patients, such as building new parts of the building, buying extra first aid just in case, helping to spread health information, maintaining websites, et cetera. I don't know if this is included in your "real cost" of the treatment, however, it would be nice for the hospitals to have a little bit more money, perhaps sent from the government, to have just in case of emergency and/or for funding new projects.

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AN ACT
to guarantee fair and affordable medical coverage for all people

Section 1 (Title)
i. The title of this Act shall be, the "Medical Price Control Act."

Section 2 (Price cap)
i. No hospital, clinic, practice, or other medical provider may charge for any service, procedure, or product in excess of 100% 100.5% the real cost to the provider.

Section 3 (Enforcement)
i. For any provider found to have violated the provisions of this Act, the penalty for the first offense shall be probationary oversight by the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MHHS) for twenty-four months.
ii. The penalty for the second offense shall be revocation of the relevant medical or pharmaceutical license.
iii. The Commonwealth Insurance Commissioner shall have full power to enforce the provisions of this Act.

Section 4 (Implementation)
i. This legislation shall take effect 1 January 2021.

Proposing an amendment, allowing for a small increase of profits while still providing a reasonable and fair price tag for patients. 24 hours to file any objections.

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Seeing as we haven't had commentary on this in 5 days, I motion for a final vote.

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Seeing as we haven't had commentary on this in 5 days, I motion for a final vote.

What is the status on the dueling amendments?

Oh crap, forgot about that. I withdraw my amendment, and I now shall give 24 hours to object to yours, just to be safe.

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Truman's amendment is adopted.

Anything else people want to add?

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The motion carries, a vote has started. You know the drill.

Aye

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Medical Price Control Act
Frémont Parliament Bill 15.05 - Sponsored by Harry S Truman, FM

	LAB	PAX	IND	TOTAL
Aye	3	1	0	4
Nay	0	0	1	1
Abstain	0	0	0	0
Not Present	0	0	0	0

	FF	TR	ML	UL	TOTAL
Aye	1	1	1	1	4
Nay	0	1	0	0	1
Abstain	0	0	0	0	0
Not Present	0	0	0	0	0

First Minister HARRY S TRUMAN of North Dakota (LAB/FF)
Mr. AUSTRALIANSWINGVOTER of Washington (IND/ML)
Mr. ISHAN of Guam (LAB/UL)
Ms. KOOPADAQUICK of Iowa (PAX/TR)
Mr. OREGON BLUE DOG of Oregon (LAB/ML)

Passed, awaiting the First Minister's signature.