Due to the emergency in health care should we liberalize licensing so that cheap doctors and nurses

[Baobab]

can be imported in quantity, forever?

what about insurance companies, should we create new laws that allow in insurance companies and banks from Central and South America, and Asia to help with the financial side - by offering new low costs insurance plans, for those without a lot of money? So they could offer all sorts of innovative financial services based on new technologies like videophone loans.

How about teachers? Should we import well educated professionals from other English speaking companies to lower the costs of education? So that millions of Americans - people who might have lost their jobs, be unemployed and being buried with taxes can remain in the country somehow?

Rotating in and out so no person was here more than five years so it wouldn't be immigration.

Keeping in mind that the change would become irreversible forever.

Wages in those fields and other services would likely fall a lot.

There really wouldnt be no other way to preserve the American healthcare system as it is today and for 20 years now this has been the only legal way (that would be consistent with our trading commitments - keep in mind we are the leading proponents of globalization so we can't just throw the whole system away).

[greymattermom]

1. we already do this

except that they have to do a residency in the US. I don't understand how India can afford to train our doctors for us.

[Baobab]

2. No, this would just require disciplines on domestic regulation that have

already been drawn up.

There would be mutual recognition of licenses.

Regulations would have to be no more burdensome than necessary to ensure the quality of the service.

[Baobab]

3. India until last year had a right to education

but that was deemed incompatible with their new commitments to the global trading system so its been jettisoned. So in return they want something back.

They just joined up but there are many other developing countries that have been engaging in the Doha negotiations that have been promised access to liberalised markets, once THEY fully liberalised, in other words, privatised like us, do you see what I am getting at?

Basically the line goes that Regulation, discriminatory policies and work regulations mandating local sourcing of services, subsidies on wages, etc. are a crutch, rich countries don't need them any more. In the level playing field, services are purchased by means of competitive international bidding and the lowest qualified bidder wins.

Truly poor countries can maintain discriminatory local sourcing and other noncomforming measures. The rights of recognized LDCs to maintain their nonconforming measures for a few more years is being written into innumerable deals.

The WTO is not going to mandate that the poorest countries allow in providers from other countries when they are clearly still struggling with the basics of liberalisation.

[Baobab]

4. Do you mean GATS Mode IV?

Or H1B visa programs?