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Nyland Daily News
Presidential healthcare reveal draws heavy praise...and sharp criticism
By Budd Tugley
Published: 14 Dein, 1583
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The President ardently defends his plans to introduce mandatory price controls on healthcare.
NYKOPING - President Kohout's administration and his allies in the Nyland Liberalists surprised the legislature and the country with a highly progressive plan to make controversial changes to the nation's healthcare system. The plan comes out as a response to more than a decade of exponentially increasing medical and drug prices, which have driven reasonable healthcare to the brink of unafforability for many millions of working class Nylanders.
The plan makes several smaller changes to the nations Medical Voucher Program, such as increasing the voucher payout for qualifying households and rolling the related Prescription Voucher Program into the medical program to save on administrative costs for the two similar agencies. It also guarantees that persons with pre-existing or chronic medical conditions who participate in the voucher program shall not be denied insurance coverage. However, the most controversial changes come in the form of the Medical and Prescription Prices Review Board, an agency to be created by Kohout's new healthcare act that will set and monitor price controls for medical procedures and patented prescription drugs and ban companies' ability to directly advertise them to the public, all in the interest of finally controlling the rampant spiraling costs of healthcare.
Proponents of the bill have lauded the administration for being the only voice to put forth a "real and functional solution" to the problem of ballooning health costs. Nyland Liberalist party leader Milan Vuletaski has been one of the measure's loudest supporters, though he admits he was skeptical at first. "I needed a little convincing from the President," Assemblyman Vuletaski admitted, "and while I don't think the bill is a perfect bill, it is the best solution anyone has come up with to both protect healthcare access for working Nylanders while also preserving the quality of care that only a model of free and open competition can provide. I would urge everyone to support this bill, if not as a a final solution, then at least as the right first step to finally fixing healthcare in our country."
Opponents of the measure have been incredibly varied, from both those on the left - such as the NPA and NMP - who prefer a single-payer national health system and believe the bill doesn't go far enough to provide true universal healthcare, and from those on the right who balk at the President's "destructive and overreaching" attempt to institute "socialized" (or if not being politically correct, "communist") medicine in Nyland... a voice led loudest by the "Karlssonite" caucus within President Kohout's own party.
Led by Assemblyman Astrad Johannsson, the "Karlsson Caucus" as they have become known is a group of old-guard liberalists and largest portion of the NL party bloc who've been wary of Kohout's brash attitude and unconventional agenda. While the group has often been split on the president's various ideas, the Medical Relief Act or "Kohoutcare" as they've begun to call it, seems to have finally united the bloc in opposition. According to Assemblyman Johannsson and his colleagues, the act would "stiffle medical competition, the driving force behind innovation" and outright kill Nyland's leading edge in drug research. "The president may believe he's doing the right thing, but this program of aggressive dictatorial price control is a huge overreach of federal power and will actively kill our outstanding system of medical care as we know it."
For his part, even though he has been out of the country for some days, Kohout has aggressively defended his administration's plan as the only responsible solution to a uniquely Nylander problem, calling out party opponents like Johannsson as those who don't know what they're talking about (to paraphrase in nicer terms) and who need to "sit down shut up, and fall in line," or he'll deal with other, more receptive groups to pass his agenda.
"The fact of the matter," Kohout argues, "is that ordinary people are making tough choices between affording healthcare, and affording rent. Nyland pays the highest prices for healthcare in the world, and yet we're not getting an equally exceptional quality of care for our price. Why? We're literally funding healthcare for the entire world; it's robbery, and its ridiculous. They can defend a broken system all they like, but if they're not willing to put forth a solution, then they need to get out of the discussion and let us grownups solve problems."
Presidential healthcare reveal draws heavy praise...and sharp criticism
By Budd Tugley
Published: 14 Dein, 1583
The President ardently defends his plans to introduce mandatory price controls on healthcare.
NYKOPING - President Kohout's administration and his allies in the Nyland Liberalists surprised the legislature and the country with a highly progressive plan to make controversial changes to the nation's healthcare system. The plan comes out as a response to more than a decade of exponentially increasing medical and drug prices, which have driven reasonable healthcare to the brink of unafforability for many millions of working class Nylanders.
The plan makes several smaller changes to the nations Medical Voucher Program, such as increasing the voucher payout for qualifying households and rolling the related Prescription Voucher Program into the medical program to save on administrative costs for the two similar agencies. It also guarantees that persons with pre-existing or chronic medical conditions who participate in the voucher program shall not be denied insurance coverage. However, the most controversial changes come in the form of the Medical and Prescription Prices Review Board, an agency to be created by Kohout's new healthcare act that will set and monitor price controls for medical procedures and patented prescription drugs and ban companies' ability to directly advertise them to the public, all in the interest of finally controlling the rampant spiraling costs of healthcare.
Proponents of the bill have lauded the administration for being the only voice to put forth a "real and functional solution" to the problem of ballooning health costs. Nyland Liberalist party leader Milan Vuletaski has been one of the measure's loudest supporters, though he admits he was skeptical at first. "I needed a little convincing from the President," Assemblyman Vuletaski admitted, "and while I don't think the bill is a perfect bill, it is the best solution anyone has come up with to both protect healthcare access for working Nylanders while also preserving the quality of care that only a model of free and open competition can provide. I would urge everyone to support this bill, if not as a a final solution, then at least as the right first step to finally fixing healthcare in our country."
Opponents of the measure have been incredibly varied, from both those on the left - such as the NPA and NMP - who prefer a single-payer national health system and believe the bill doesn't go far enough to provide true universal healthcare, and from those on the right who balk at the President's "destructive and overreaching" attempt to institute "socialized" (or if not being politically correct, "communist") medicine in Nyland... a voice led loudest by the "Karlssonite" caucus within President Kohout's own party.
Led by Assemblyman Astrad Johannsson, the "Karlsson Caucus" as they have become known is a group of old-guard liberalists and largest portion of the NL party bloc who've been wary of Kohout's brash attitude and unconventional agenda. While the group has often been split on the president's various ideas, the Medical Relief Act or "Kohoutcare" as they've begun to call it, seems to have finally united the bloc in opposition. According to Assemblyman Johannsson and his colleagues, the act would "stiffle medical competition, the driving force behind innovation" and outright kill Nyland's leading edge in drug research. "The president may believe he's doing the right thing, but this program of aggressive dictatorial price control is a huge overreach of federal power and will actively kill our outstanding system of medical care as we know it."
For his part, even though he has been out of the country for some days, Kohout has aggressively defended his administration's plan as the only responsible solution to a uniquely Nylander problem, calling out party opponents like Johannsson as those who don't know what they're talking about (to paraphrase in nicer terms) and who need to "sit down shut up, and fall in line," or he'll deal with other, more receptive groups to pass his agenda.
"The fact of the matter," Kohout argues, "is that ordinary people are making tough choices between affording healthcare, and affording rent. Nyland pays the highest prices for healthcare in the world, and yet we're not getting an equally exceptional quality of care for our price. Why? We're literally funding healthcare for the entire world; it's robbery, and its ridiculous. They can defend a broken system all they like, but if they're not willing to put forth a solution, then they need to get out of the discussion and let us grownups solve problems."