4049.1: Tuesday, October 23, 2001: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| The General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), now being negotiated, would facilitate the incursion of the private health insurance industry into public national health care systems outside of the U.S., in developed as well as developing nations. Speakers will address the progress of this agreement, international efforts to resist it, and the implications for equitable and universal health care internationally. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: NA | ||||
| Ellen Shaffer, MD | ||||
| Ellen Shaffer, MD | ||||
| Free Trade Agreements and the US Health Care System Michelle Sforza, Dominique Durand | ||||
| International Trade Agreements, Health Care Systems and Social Movements in Latin America Celia Iriart, PhD, Howard Waitzkin, MD, PhD, Emerson Elias Merhy, MD, PhD | ||||
| The Canadian Health Care System: At Odds with Free Trade Matthew Sanger | ||||
| Sponsor: | Medical Care | |||
| Cosponsors: | Peace Caucus; Social Work; Socialist Caucus | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||