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  1. "Next Generation" Trade and Investment Agreements: Upcoming Challenges for Public Services

    This is an excellent recent presentation by a EU public services group about the attacks on public services in the EU by the trade agreements of countries like the US ('next generation' trade deals ...

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  2. GATS' Article XXI procedure.

    We must dump GATS before it dumps us!

    Located in Recommendations
  3. Perilous Lessons: The Impact of the WTO Services Agreement (GATS) on Canada's Public Education System

    Written for professionals and citizens alike, this book provides a primer on a little-known agreement within the World Trade Organization, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). It ...

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  4. Trade Negotiation Capacity and Health Carve-Outs in Trade Agreements Located in Links
  5. GATS Article XXI procedures on WTO site

    The procedure for removing a specific service sector, like "health insurance" or "higher education" from a country's Specific Commitments (WTO site)

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  6. Maine CTPC Health Care Subcommittee Draft Report on GATS barriers to state health care reforms

    US states thought they could just implement a statewide single payer system, many seem to still think that. But they were wrong. This report to the state of Maine shows what they found out! This ...

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  7. Model clauses for the exclusion of public services from trade and investment agreements ( EPSU & Markus Krajewski)

    This paper discusses how trade agreements could be modified in the EU to protect their existing public services from trade and investment agreements which are designed to tear them apart and ...

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  8. Putting Health First - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

    Canadian Health Care Reform, Trade Treaties and Foreign Policy - this essay describes the traps in the GATS agreement for Canadian health care, and it also would totally apply to a hypothetical US ...

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  9. The Potential Impact of the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services on Health System Reform and Regulation in the United States. (2009)

    This paper is perhaps one of the best introductions to the GATS and healthcare issue for Americans on this site. In this 2009 paper, the late Nicholas Skala, explains the "GATS" agreement, and its ...

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Note: Everything on this site is speculative and I am not an attorney,
I am an amateur futurist, and this site is an attempt to pose what-if scenarios so we could improve the resilience of our society, in the face of autocratic so called 'futureproofing' deals that serve to do an end run around democracy in all sorts of areas, stealing future policy space for corporations.
Questions should be being asked about the legitimacy - given their democratic deficit, of these trade and investment agreements, because they have become an undemocratic, higher-level supranational government of by and for the global oligarchy, not "We the people".

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