2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 'Why do they hate Hillary Clinton so much?' [View all]Baobab
(4,667 posts)Hiding WTO-GATS, also the scheme to hide its connection to health care, also trading jobs for service concessions, which is likely to become a huge issue if a WTO case that was just started is lost by us and Canada, and quotas are banned. Expect 30-40 million jobs lost to workers who likely will make a quarter of what those currently holding the high skilled service jobs make. It will even devastate law and medicine and likely worsten the brain drain elsewhere. The goal is to equalize wages throughout the world at some much lower level than they are in developed countries today. Countries with strong unions will do better. It will make it impossible to change the laws here though, to make unions stronger because it freezes laws at 1998. So parts of the ACA, whichever parts the insurers dont like will be challenged, since its clearly a financial service.