“The right to regulate has to be preserved” How We can make a bigger difference than anything else
“The right to regulate has to be preserved”
the US itself has set up a huge roadblock to health care reform - restrictive t--deals that block the elements of single payer systematically, which states run into - they frustrate state plans.
the first linked document is from Maine.:
http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/ctpchlthcaresub.pdf
Other states also face this same road block which needs to be address at the international level- BUT THE DESIRE TO DO SO IS THERE.
Who is blocking it- The United States!! That wasn't a typo. (Some context on existing US tr/ ade deals blocks to health care reform)
Carve outs urgently need to be placed in TiSA (the new negotiations they re talking about "Friends of Services"
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To prevent the situation from becoming WORSE.
More info can be found in Europe at the TiSA negotiations- Europeans are fighting to be able to keep their public health care and education! .
I will add links here as I find them. Note- Europeans seem to be ignoring the earlier WTO services agreement- maybe they don't realize its there?
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+AMD+A8-2016-0009+002-008+DOC+PDF+V0//EN
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+COMPARL+PE-567.814+01+DOC+PDF+V0//EN
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//NONSGML+AMD+A8-2016-0009+002-008+DOC+WORD+V0//EN
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/may/tradoc_153465.pdf