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Baobab

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15. The GATS and TISA trade deals have made single payer FTA-illegal since 1994
Thu May 5, 2016, 05:54 PM
May 2016

Last edited Thu May 5, 2016, 06:44 PM - Edit history (1)

These both are informative about how FTAS are making affordable health care and education impossible:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.405.5725 (US)

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.678.59 (Canada)

Additional info: http://www.maine.gov/legis/opla/ctpchlthcaresub.pdf

They are going to safeinOhio May 2016 #1
Too bad we have "Democrats" working to oppose single payer in Colorado. nt villager May 2016 #2
List their nsmes lsewpershad May 2016 #4
Enjoy villager May 2016 #7
The GATS and TISA trade deals have made single payer FTA-illegal since 1994 Baobab May 2016 #15
It's a real shame we didn't get the public option. Vinca May 2016 #3
"Public option" was a scam thought up by insurance companies. Baobab May 2016 #16
The public option could have been a buy-in for Medicare and as people gravitated Vinca May 2016 #17
Medicare was grandfathered in, also its for old people. Baobab May 2016 #20
Guaranteed to fail becase of Adverse Selection Baobab May 2016 #21
Meaning they aren't making the profit they used to make when they could screw people Ohioblue22 May 2016 #5
Exactly. Obscene execustive salaries and bonuses... are threatened! villager May 2016 #8
We need an EO... scscholar May 2016 #6
EO ? sorry I'm clueless ..lol. YOHABLO May 2016 #11
Executive order would be my guess. nt PunkinPi May 2016 #13
they cannot force businesses to insure people Baobab May 2016 #19
Alaska just lost one of two providers J_J_ May 2016 #9
Eventually, all that will be left of ACA is the mandate. We will never get rid of that part. Skeeter Barnes May 2016 #10
Nothing says "hope" and "change" like another tax on poor people! villager May 2016 #18
As soon as its globalized then the foreign insurance providers will petition WTO to apply "rollback" Baobab May 2016 #22
I have noticed also how some docs don't want to take Medicare patients. YOHABLO May 2016 #12
So citizens can't say 'no' to Obamacare, but Humana, et al. can? Lodestar May 2016 #14
You dont see rich people buying Obamacare Baobab May 2016 #23
hell, they probably wrote it Skittles May 2016 #24
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