What will be the coming administration's healthcare policy- We already know!
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It's already clear. Whatever they come up with it will have
to lead to - "progressive liberalization" which means ever increasing
privatization - and then globalization. It must involve more liberalization,
never less (liberalization means global privatization) It will be called
deregulation, but it actually will involve the most Byzantine and non-intuitive
regulations imaginable, which will be totally out of our hands to change! (Even
though it's likely to be a disaster for most Americans finances, it will be
great for the biggest corporations.)
This was signaled clearly to an international audience by Donald Trump when he
said that his plan would be "selling across state lines" that
is a code word because it means foreign health insurers will come in as quickly
as possible rapidly killing any chance of single payer forever, (policy is
taken out of the realm of the changeable) as foreign corporations gain a
perpetual entitlement to market access.
See The US-Gambling WTO case between Antigua and the United States.
There is a good description of this case in this paper by Nicholas Skala .:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.405.5725&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Health insurance is a covered service under GATS, and explicitly included,
however up until now no foreign insurers have entered our market because of the
complexities of selling 50 policies in 50 states, with different legal
standards of care.
Once "one policy is sold across state lines" foreign trade
begins and is locked in, killing single payer forever.
Another discussion of these triggers from the State of
Maine here.
http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/ctpchlthcaresub.pdf
The main goals of the (WTO) "GATS" are making
business more profitable by lowering costs, such as wages, and encouraging
international trade, especially when it acts as a sort of New Deal to
assist the economic development of the developing world.
Therefore, state owned monopolies in developed countries - as well as
developing ones, have to be broken up and rendered profitable so they make
attractive prospects for privatization and globalization. Irreversibly. This is
the United States' goal, especially. Everybody knows this, except for us
Americans. And it's very controversial, because other countries cannot afford
to give up their public services, especially if they get nothing in return. So,
there is an implicit promise of market access. (If they can be the low
bidders.)
It's a huge shift of power away from democratic institutions that becomes
irreversible, because of its international trade aspect, shifting wealth away
from the workforce, especially the public sector, to global services firms,
overwhelmingly large multinational corporations, it's a change that strongly
favors large multinational corporations. Some of that wealth will also go to
large staffing firms based in developing countries. The losses of the allegedly
overpaid workers in the developing world will be divided between the owners of
the multinational corporations and their employees who are expected to be
largely from low wage developing countries. Since the changes will increase
profitability in areas like health care they will be framed as gains. They won't
lower costs, they will increase profits. That's the goal.
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