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  3. Spain has nationalized its healthcare system, as part of its state of emergency.

Spain has nationalized its healthcare system, as part of its state of emergency.

Spain is in a very grave situation, with many of its leadership in quarantine. The entire country is in lockdown.

Spain Locks Down & Nationalizes Private Healthcare as Coronavirus Deaths Double & Cases Skyrocket

(Democracy Now)

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  • Is the massive campaign against disinformation in the MSM, itself disinformative, in fact acting to hide the theft of democracy by secret deals such as the GATS? Oct 15, 2020
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This folder's contents:
  • Huge death tolls in US with huge racial disparities
  • Biden, like Trump is not even remotely progressive
  • Lowered insulin price should be made permanent
  • Message to NGOs that should be obvious.
  • Comments After Bernie Sanders Withdrawal from Presidential Race Illustrates that Entire US Opposition Does Not Know About GATS-
  • Open letter asking 37 WTO Members to declare themselves eligible to import medicines manufactured under compulsory license in another country, under 31bis of TRIPS Agreement
  • The dirty linkage between trading away US jobs and lack of affordable medicines.
  • The future of work in the US, guest workers, precarious labor and the "agreement" to privatize everything.
  • Won't somebody tell US states about GATS so they stop pretending they can just vote to fix healthcare.
  • Urgent-non-partisan Medicare and Social-Security traps for the unwary -proof below
  • How strange - somebody appears to have been posing as me and uploaded three documents to an online service a year ago.
  • Phytonutrients' importance in COVID-19 epidemiology and resistance.
  • COVID-19 epidemic was predictably likely so countries cant say it was unexpected.
  • Joe Biden's nomination of Katherine Tai to be USTR.
  • It's still way too early to "open the US up" say the numbers.
  • Trump confesses he doesn't want to do testing in the US because it reveals cases of COVID-19.
  • As deaths mount, Trump tries to convince Americans it’s safe to inch back to normal
  • WHO announces COVID-19 Technology Pool to cooperate to beat the virus.
  • Excerpt from Lou Dobbs re: Stealth "War on the Middle Class" with comments by Lori Wallach.
  • Evolution will not be televised
  • Are Trade Agreements the real reason why resveratrol and NAC are barely being investigated for COVID-19?
  • Resveratrol, a widely available nutritional supplement, inhibits COVID-19 in cell cultures.
  • Question to my readers on Article II MFN exemption expiration dates (re Affordable Care Act expiration)
  • New York Times totally covering up the real cause of Education Privatization.
  • New York Times appears to be trying to cover up GATS' effect on healthcare
  • "Biden Cuts Social Security" (The Intercept) Actually, its the GATS agreement we signed more than two decades ago, and the TISA that they probably will revive soon that do it. Medicare is likely to get the same treatment too. See elsewhere on this site.
  • Graphic illustrates why the oligarchy wants to capture migration for corporations..
  • Is the massive campaign against disinformation in the MSM, itself disinformative, in fact acting to hide the theft of democracy by secret deals such as the GATS?
  • Australia recently made changes to their healthcare, likely to become more TISA or GATS compliant. Also, two good sources of info on trade deals and drugs, and drug IP issues, especially involving the ongoing COVID-19 and global AIDS heath crises..
  • Media coverage of WTO dispute settlement impasse completely leaving out its implications for working if WTO takes over work visas globally.
  • The mystery of WTO dispute DS503- a stealth attack on skilled workers and their work in the US and globally.
  • Oh what a tangled web we weave. On healthcare and insurance and the 'Affordable Care Act' and the GATS agreement.
  • "The US economy is being hollowed out behind all of our backs!" TAA statistics supposed to track outsourcing and job loss to trade deals is allowed a huge loophole - so it misses many, or more likely most jobs being lost!
  • Capitalism Is Broken. The Fix Begins With a Free Covid-19 Vaccine.
  • Stilbene-based Natural Compounds as Promising Drug Candidates against COVID-19.
  • As COVID-19 deaths rise in Mexico, US tries to force Mexican factories to continue to work in defiance of common sense.
  • The COVID-19 situation illustrates why trade agreements should never have been used to hijack the peoples wishes to lock in bad policy on healthcare and drugs, trapping politicians in big lies.
  • The dangers of rushing coronavirus vaccines are substantial.
  • Video on European Investment Court shows how standing before international courts is a major issue. Should people have a right to exist at the supranational level (before these courts)?
  • Make no mistake about it, the duopoly is trying to roll back the gains of the last 3/4 century, here's why and how.
  • One year into the COVID19 epidemic many useful strategies are still being overlooked. Why?
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF WTO PROVISIONS IN FAVOUR OF DEVELOPING COUNTRY MEMBERS Note by the Secretariat
  • Additional measures concerning non-immigrant visas - Request for Consultations by India from the US.
  • GATS Mode 4
  • Cost of having a baby in the US if you are uninsured could be as high as $287,453 (2009)
  • British firm may have created a successful lock in of US healthcare policy, read story to understand how scary this kind of corporate lock-in is.
  • I do not plan to vote for Biden if he wins the nomination. He's not somebody I trust. He's BSing us on "public option" which is not a valid approach to healthcare,
  • GOP stimulus bill will help the better off more than the poor, and very low income people won't get anything.
  • The UK's health is threatened by the push to privatize it's National Health Service. Here is what must be done to preserve it.
  • Italian doctors adamant that if Italy did not have a public healthcare system it would be worse.
  • Neither Americans nor Britons seem to be able to admit that both our governments are lying to us across a broad spectrum to hide GATS.
  • "Clinton-care", "Clinton-lite"
  • The real cause of Bernie Sanders' problems with the DNC (and America's healthcare mess!)
  • Britain is literally being TRICKED out of their NHS and other social services by UK government and business interests, recent events, public documents prove. (Part One of a series)
  • How could Biden "expand Obamacare" when "progressive liberalization" is a ONE WAY STREET to privatization.
  • Never ending scandals, drama, histrionics, as a deliberate scheme to cover-up the depriving of the nation and planet of functional democratic governance.
  • Be aware coronavirus may be used to attempt "post-hoc" "justification" of a huge plan to outsource/offshore jobs (GATS Mode 4) to lower wages, that been planned, literally for 32 yrs!
  • MIT test of "Secure" Voting App finds multiple vulnerabilities.
  • Insurance developments that could lead us into COSTLY FTA-lock-in
  • Nick Skala had almost gotten the House to vote on single paper.
  • An entire nation's minds are a horrible thing to waste.
  • The Hidden Holocaust -
  • Is the testing of and number of diagnosed coronavirus patients being delayed in order so that more drug companies and products can be sold with long periods of patent exclusivity at higher prices, to literally make a killing?
  • Bernie Sanders health plan would make coronavirus vaccine (and treatment) free.
  • Insurance companies clarify co-pays waived for corona virus testing only, not treatment
  • Germany has 63,000 coronavirus cases but just a fraction of the numbers of deaths as the US.
  • Britons and (we) Americans need to know something. We have frustrated "expectancies" but increasingly, thanks to GATS, the proposed UK-US FTA, TISA and others, not any kind of real property interest in our nation's futures.
  • HEATHCARE EMERGENCY, A PERSONAL LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN WUHAN CHINA
  • "Its why US healthcare never gets fixed" A plea to Bernie Sanders and his campaign, to please tell the country about GATS
  • Coronavirus epidemic news coverage
  • Biden says he will veto Medicare-for-All bill if it lands on his desk. This is proof that he knows that its banned by 'GATS', an obscure WTO trade agreement we really should repudiate and dump.
  • Spain has nationalized its healthcare system, as part of its state of emergency.
  • Large scale privatizations of once-public (services) are the first steps in a global scheme to outsource and/or offshore them internationally at low wages.
  • Coronavirus mortality in US now higher than many other countries.
  • Made up interview imagining a (WTO dispute) DS503 loss, answering my own made up imagined questions from readers about it.
  • Americans should be aware of a very important difference between the US Presidential candidates
  • Britons, GATS was the missing piece Jeremy Corbyn likely couldn't tell you about two months ago, Similarly with Bernie Sanders, it seems he won't tell us this missing piece either I really would rather not think that he'd rather let Biden win the Dem nomination and then lose to Trump. BTW, without leaving GATS, Biden cannot fix healthcare, his hands will be tied by GATS..
  • [Ip-health] Unreasonable pricing and The ‘Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act, 6 2020
  • Famous last words? “our country wasn’t built to be shut down.”
  • "You no longer had to kill yourself” to avoid being “a burden on your children”
  • Both the British and we Americans are naive over what is at stake in a battle which the Brits frame as just being about their NHS, and the US frames as being about healthcare reform or Medicare For All..
  • A look at the "affordable" "health insurance" the global corporate state has in store for the poorer of us.
  • Problems Britons blame on their EU membership are largely rooted in their WTO membership, not their EU membership. So Brexit won't fix them, in fact it will almost certainly make them all much worse.
  • Recommendation, the US should strongly consider leaving the (WTO) GATS (Jobs and services) and TRIPS (drugs) and LINKING THE TWO TOGETHER.
  • Our right to regulate drug prices was signed away when we joined the WTO.
  • Rank and file Democrats don't know about the GATS, nor does it seem do many Congresspeople. Also, PLEASE submit "claims" made here, to fact checking sites, whether you doubt them or not.
  • A long discussion on the captured state (of affairs) for working people in the US, UK and a case in the WTO, DS503 that could pull the rug out from underneath developed country workers worldwide.
  • The most important issue for a healthy healthcare future: a unitary, tierless system. This should not be disputable.
  • Sanya Reid Smith explains TISA - very good explanation.
  • Salon article on Republicans and healthcare leaves out the actions of the other neoliberals
  • A Country in Denial, and not just about COVID-19
  • Hidden Holocaust: Young Californian, turned away by urgent care facility because he was uninsured dies of cardiac arrest due to coronavirus
  • Trump is deliberately antagonizing China, the source of most of the ingredients that go into drugs people need-
  • “A healthy society shouldn’t have only one voice.” in praise of China's citizen journalists.
  • Trump in the UK, saying NHS is "on the table", 2014 (UK's) Serco "being paid to do nothing" KMOV story. GATS information blockade. What does it all mean?
  • "This is about their future" 2020 Election needs to be perceived as fair, as having given the losing side a voice, and due process.
  • Trump is making a bad situation worse.
  • The reason the Corporate Dems "coalesced" so quickly around Joe Biden is the desire to hide the GATS from voters.
  • (watching the debate) Why you cant have a Medicare "public option" its simple. The public absolutely cannot be optional.
  • Why mixed healthcare systems are failing in trying to deliver subsidized healthcare
  • Who traded who what in the GATS?
  • Three very young North Korean soldiers die of pneumonia, their age coincides with 1997 "famine"
  • WTO looks at the ACA as a "Post 2008" temporary financial services re-regulation.
  • WHO: International Trade and Health
  • We need to prevent the creation of a hospital to prison pipeline.
  • Trump's proposal that the US could "make a decision in 15 days" allowing businesses to reopen so soon while the epidemic is still raging would be extremely ill advised
  • What is "progressive liberalization" ?
  • What will happen with Brexit and the NHS?
  • The WTO Procedure we must pursue to get our rights to regulate (for example, to implement Medicare For All) back for a service sector (like health insurance)
  • President Trump, Vice President Pence, stop the BS - GATS and TRIPS are preventing the government from doing what it needs to do to cure the epidemic, and politicians are hiding it.
  • Bernie Sanders should not drop out for a very simple reason. Doing so would be abandoning us to the "mercy" of a merciless and evil 32 year old scheme to turn our democracy and our world's present and future over to corporations and the oligarchs that run them, that most Americans would consider to be an unspeakable crime, literally, if they knew about it. But we don't.
  • Infrastructure Construction would be subject to globalization requirements and likely outsourcing so both parties seem to be hiding that.
  • 11 National Associations of Healthcare Workers Issue Letter demanding More protections for Health Workers.

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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