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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, it also ...
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Maine CTPC Health Care Subcommittee Draft Report on GATS barriers to state health care reforms
This report was prepared for the state of Maine by trade experts from Georgetown University. It shows some of the hidden traps faced by states that attempt to ...
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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 ...
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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)
In this 2009 paper, the late Nicholas Skala explained the "GATS" agreement, its implications for US healthcare reform (its many conflicts with many of the ...
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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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Trade Negotiation Capacity and Health Carve-Outs in Trade Agreements
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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 ...
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GATS' Article XXI procedure.
The potentially costly and time consuming procedure required to emancipate a country's service sector from the GATS. However it must be done or a country ...
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Carve-outs are needed to get new public services, like Medicare for All, and to keep any existing public services which have been placed in grave danger by a 1990s trade agreement.
Otherwise they will be subjected to rules requiring them to be "minimally trade restrictive". This will destroy them. Its designed and intended to do exactly ...
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Recommendations
Things that need to be done to end/reverse the theft of all nations' policy space.
