Bluntly, as they describe it, the high cost of labor in the developed countries is acting like a huge weight around corporations necks, forcing capital to invest in developing countries, not in us. What is really happening is the system has become less and less dependent on any one workforce. Increased profits are motivated by both greed and increased competition for jobs.
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Genelining is the practice of using genetic information in health insurance underwriting, in other words, deciding who to offer health insurance, and for what price based on the results or genetic screening tests or family history. Other means of assessing risk may be geographically based, information thats getting very easy to access due to the widespread practice of including GPS chips in cell phones. .
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They will do what the last several Administrations have wanted to do, remove the quotas on guest workers here under the movement of natural persons provisions of trade 'agreements' like GATS .
As it stands today, International law obligations in the GATS block most of the things we urgently need to do to prevent an additional potentially large number of deaths from the COVID-19 - These two documents on international law discuss "Force Majure" - a legal strategy to get out of contractual obligations when a situation changes in fundamental ways.
The important thing to understand is that our government (in the US) is pursuing an absolutely separate, often contradictory policy via the almost unknown means of trade deals and trade policy and that that agenda is often diametrically opposed to what they are claiming to be for and against in the political theater that they show us.
Important concepts to know about! (Work in Progress!)
This site is hoping to illuminate some of the dangers of signing almost totally unknown permanent trade agreements that nullify democracy.
What they call in Europe "services of general economic interest". Why can't it work here? Because the EU services were pre-existing to GATS, so are grandfathered in. If they made any changes, like Brexit, they would break too. Just ike the UK's have been gradually being privatized. And like us, they are not allowed to create any new ones unless they modify their GATS commitments, and if they had committed healthcare they likely have to pay a high price for doing so.
This is another of the reasons why my country's (the US's) politics is so broken.
"Whats the Matter with NAFTA" is a piece by Elaine Bernard from 20 years ago that offers an excellent intro to many FTA concepts.
WIP: Work in Progress