Is private health care a one-way street?

If Canada continues along the road to private health care, international trade governments could make it a one-way highway And the result could be higher require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones for government programs and employer-sponsored benefit plans.

Canada is involved in a number of international trade agreements, including the North American independent Trade Agreement, the World Trade Organization and the General Agreement upon Tariffs and Trade. The complexity of these agreements is staggering, on the other hand they have several important public features:

* conducts involved agree to treat foreign and national providers of the same profitables services or investments on the same bounds

* Foreign investors and exporters must be compensated if management measures deny them market access.

* Each agreement requires the countries involved to submit their policies to binding trade dispute mechanisms.

* Each of the agreements has particular exceptions and reservations.

With no public consultation, Canada's trade negotiators overlayed health insurance under the GATS in