That approach solves all the systemic problems without creating new ones.
Instead we're being trated to a scheme whose goal is clearly the holding of our chronically ill patients to effectuate a massive rip off of the country, concealed as a way to "save" healthcare.
The likelihood that this was planned in advance is there to see, in the fact that this escape clause from the hated guaranteed issue portion of Obamacare is hiding in plain sight in the GATS agreement.
Chronically ill Americans, who would likely lose coverage again if the standstill clause was invoked, would of course, again likely face extreme hardship finding a domestic insurer willing to cover them for less than a king's ransom, with the additional problems caused by the elimination of other rules enacted since 1998, for example, the prohibition against genetic discrimination and as I said, limits on profit taking.
. WTO standstill might also prevent a great many other things we do now if mandated by new laws, and all other measures adopted in laws for all government regulation must be the least trade restrictive possible if they effect trade in services..
The shift to foreign high-skill workers would be great for
businesses profits but many would lose jobs, cutting the number of
potential customers; also reducing our country's chances of getting a
consensus for a sane immigration policy.
I have a feeling
that the incentive of ultra-cheap high-skill labor is such a powerful
corrupting influence, that it is in many ways similar to slavery.
For that reason we must avoid it. The fact that big
corporations could make more money with dirt-cheap labor. I see as a
slippery slope to a return to a greedy society when we should be
giving people much more free time in anticipation of the rapidly
approaching day when most people don't work any more.
These
guest-worker deals are extremely disrespectful to both our own
workforces, and others, a treatment that seems as if it is trying to
minimalize the acknowledgement of the benefits that high tech workers
bring to the table, by pitting them against one another at every
opportunity. This is inappropriate in a world where national borders
mean less and less and technology skills are important to support and
encourage. Politics could learn a great deal from technology
especially the open source software development community.
They also elevate the middlemen in a way which is inappropriate given their function in the hierarchy seems mostly one of skimming some substantial portion of the workers pay an essentially parasitic occupation.
They illustrate how insanely out of touch with reality the
Clinton's and Trump's of the world are these days.
We
should never pull the rug out from under our skilled workers,
especially the quasi-public sector hard-working professionals that by
all accounts is the group most targeted for Mode Four liberalization
efforts.
Also throwing young people, legal immigrants and permanent residents, under the bus.
Nor should we put foreign tech workers into the humiliating
positionn these programs put them, whether they work here or
overseas, (often working in the middle of the neight, because thats
when its daytime here)
If the US is a democracy,
something this important should be put up for a vote. Maybe people
want to give those jobs away. Maybe they want to silently give away
their chance to have affordable health care for all and free college
education- for those that can handle it.
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