U.S. Wins WTO Case to destroy India's Solar Power Industry

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29. Yes, i totally support Bernie Sanders- Okay, here the section is GATS Article XXI procedure.

This is a good introduction to any reading on this issue..

http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National_Office_Pubs/putting_health_first.pdf

Also this just came out, its about TPP, and its very much on point:

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/major-complications
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Gats Article XXI procedure- the one we signed in 1995 - but were never told about is also described in these two documents, below both of which have a lot of other related information.

http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/ctpchlthcaresub.pdf (This is also a must read, as it explains the problem of GATS blocking state healthcare plans, especially single payer . Its from the government of the state of Maine. Note it also shows the TiSA talks began in 2006, ten years ago!)

BTW, Single payer has to real single payer and also - cannot be "optional" that was a scam cooked up by the health insurance industry to use as bait.. also, it is guaranteed to fail, as was OC.

the reasons are simple- Adverse selection and falling incomes relative to the cost of health insurance, which is only ging to get orse as jobs vanish and wealth concentrates-

but the reality has been proven again and again by state plan after state plan all failing in the same way after approximately the same amount of time..

http://www.pnhp.org/states_flatline/State%20Health%20Reform%20Flatlines%20IJHS%20-%202008.pdf


Single payer is a working system but it has to be single payer, that sounds a bit repetitive but as I have had innumerable arguments with people i could just tell were paid confusers, I know this territiry intimately, It must be all or nothing to work. In other words, it cannot be a healthcare plan of last resort for the sick - thats called a high risk pool, it absolutely cannot exist alongside of commercial insurance plans, and charging money. There can't be fees - also because of the way WTO GATS (and TiSA, which borrows the same definition of scope) work, a health care plan has to be completely noncommercial to avoid a TiSA attack which leads straight to piecemeal privatization -... The same (GATS Article I:3 (b) and (c) - related issues apply to public education and virtually all other public services. (see links that I have posted repeatedly before or Google these phrases - especially the bolded one "For the purposes of this Agreement…

(b) 'services' includes any service in any sector except services supplied in the exercise of governmental authority;

(c) 'a service supplied in the exercise of governmental authority' means any service which is supplied neither on a commercial basis, nor in competition with one or more service suppliers." )

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http://www.citizen.org/documents/PresidentialWTOreport.pdf (Must read, also don't miss the references)

Proof that the EU has an outstanding request in to the US to harmonize state insurance plan (the 'selling of ne plan across state lines- is a precondition to entry into the US market often mentioned by experts as being a "stepping stone to no single payer ever" You'll notice that selling one policy across state lines is a consistent element of both GOP and I think perhaps also the Obama Administration has mentioned it. (if so, that would be classic Obama Administration signalling behavior that he really would like to trap us with it, but can't.)


http://www.citizen.org/documents/usa.pdf (under NAIC Model Law)

I have others - Brazil has also made that request. So a Brazilian firm wants to sell health insurance to Americans, but cant because of the 50 states. Once they come in, getting rid of them becomes unbelievably costly, and as I said that i essential to having single payer that works.


Also, of course, TiSA which is almost completed, TTIP and TPP.: