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PROLOGUE
Facets Of Insurance Coverage Worldwide
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The exponential growth in the value of the commercial services export trade during the past two decades facilitated the genesis of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) during the Uruguay Round of international trade negotiations. As Ian Mutchnick and colleagues tell us in their January 2005 Health Affairs Web Exclusive, GATS compelled World Trade Organization member nations to abide by two guiding principles in trade in services. The first requires participating countries to extend the same level of openness of a particular sector of their services trade to all member states. The second necessitates equal treatment for service . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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