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  • This house would allocate the majority of public healthcare funds to palliative care, as opposed to treatments for terminal diseases.

    Infoslide

    Palliative care is specialized care aimed at optimizing the quality of life and alleviating pain mainly for people with serious, complex illnesses. It is distinctive from other treatments which aims to cure diseases. Palliative care can be used in conjunction with other medical treatments, and is currently underprioritized in terms of research, access, and development.

    4th Linkbate Debate Championship · 2 · 2021-03-27

  • Assuming the technology exists, This house would allow individuals to buy and sell the remaining years of their life as opposed to restricting access to the technology completely

    Australasian Interschool Debate Championship 2021 · Grand Final · 2021-03-27

  • This house would press the button once when young, as opposed to daily

    Infoslide

    A 'Save Button' is a device that, when pressed, scans the user down to the cellular level and stores the scan. In the event of the user's deaThis house, the scan is '"Printed"' to a new physical body, complete with the exact state of the users' brain when the Save Button was pressed, and wakes up. New Saves irreversably overwrite previous ones. After Printing, the scan is destroyed.

    Cameroon Debate Open · Open Semis · 2021-03-21

  • This house opposes the production of fictional medical series

    Infoslide

    Grey's Anatomy, New Amsterdam and Chicago Med, are some of the medical series that have found great following. Many of their storylines use seemingly realistic scenarios, with sometimes outlandish medical solutions.

    Cameroon Debate Open · 4 · 2021-03-21

  • This house believes that medicine should be funded based on its impact on quality-adjusted life years

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    The quality-adjusted life year is a generic measure of disease burden including both the quality and the quantity of life lived. It is used in economic evaluation to assess the value of medical interventions (drugs surgeries etc). One QALY equates to one year in perfect health a year with no quality of life is not a QALY. QALY scores range from 1 to 0 based on the quality of life during that year. QALYs can be used to inform health insurance coverage determinations treatment decisions evaluate programs and set priorities for future programs.

    Western High School Fall Debate Tournament 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-03-06

  • That professional sports should have a separate league in which the use of performance-enhancing drugs is permitted

    Advanced Open 2021 · 2 · 2021-02-28

  • That professional sports should have a separate league in which the use of performance-enhancing drugs is permitted

    Advanced Open 2021 · 2 · 2021-02-28

  • This house regrets the prevalence of prenatal testing for genetic disorders (i.e. chromosomal abnormalities like down syndrome)

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    Prenatal testing is a common procedure done to test a child’s overall health. One type of prenatal test screens a baby’s risk for chromosomal abnormalities (i.e. genetic conditions such as Down Syndrome, Tay-Sachs syndrome, etc.). The blood tests used to screen these chromosomal abnormalities simply assess risk and are not always accurate.

    Bicol Intervarsity · Open Semis · 2021-02-26

  • This house, as the International Olympic Committee, would establish a truth and reconciliation commission on doping

    Infoslide

    The goal of a truth and reconciliation commission is to hold public hearings to establish the scale and impact of a past injustice and make it part of the permanent, unassailable public record. They are temporary bodies that dissolve upon giving their final report which contains a series of recommendations. These reports officially recognise victims and perpetrators in an effort to move beyond the painful past. These commissions do not have the power to prosecute. They can make recommendations for punishment, but this is quite rare. Commissions usually do not even 'name names"

    Justice Tarkunde PD · 3 · 2021-02-26

  • This house would impose an immediate and significant one-time wealth tax for big corporations during the pandemic

    Infoslide

    Wealth tax is a tax based on the market value of owned assets (i.e. assets minus liabilities. These assets include (but are not limited to) cash, bank deposits, shares, fixed assets, personal cars, assessed value of real property, pension plans, money funds, owner-occupied housing, and trusts) compared to the normal practice of taxing income.

    Bicol Intervarsity · 2 · 2021-02-26