The TTIP or doing business with health
Thousands of European
and US companies are pressing Brussels for the future Free Trade
Agreement to include their demands, thus extending its tentacles to the
field of public health . comments
negotiations on the Free Trade
Agreement (TTIP) between the European Commission (EC) and the US
administration are well advanced. It has been nearly two years and eight
rounds since ripped the talks, July 12, 2013 in Brussels. Still nothing
closed or signed, say the negotiators and responsible Commission.
However, the concerns of civil society at the possible consequences that
this agreement will have on public services like health are beginning
to emerge in the public debate in several countries. "Governments can
not recover and privatized services, although its effects are disastrous
and the exorbitant costs," said Pablo Sanchez, representative of the
European Federation of Public Services. The opening of health systems in
Europe to competition from US private providers can also generate or
accelerate, according to the union representative, health privatization
processes. "The TTIP is possible more commercial vision of Health
because it tries to do business with the health of the sick", says
Sanchez.
