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Baobab

(4,667 posts) Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:23 PM Mar 2016

The best health care mess explanation article I've ever read, by far.

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The best health care mess explanation article I've ever read, by far. (Original Post) Baobab Mar 2016 OP

"GATS defines health insurance to be a “financial service" Earth_First Mar 2016 #1

Earth_First

(14,910 posts)

1. "GATS defines health insurance to be a “financial service"

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Mon Mar 7, 2016, 09:59 PM

Mar 2016

the special rules of the Annex on Financial Services and the Understanding on Commitments in Financial Services apply
to public health insurance programs. And because, under these proposals, a public program would compete with commercial insurers, it cannot be protected as a government entity."

They really tied our hands on this....

Fu*k the WTO!

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