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Author Boychuk, Gerard William, 1967-

Title National health insurance in the United States and Canada : race, territory, and the roots of difference / Gerard W. Boychuk
Published Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) : illustrations
Series American governance and public policy series
American governance and public policy.
Contents Explaining health insurance in the United States and Canada -- Similar beginnings, different contexts, 1910-40 -- Failure of reform in the Truman era, 1943-52 -- The medicare package, 1957-65 -- Race and the Clinton reforms -- Federal failure, provincial success: reform in Canada, 1945-49 -- National public hospital insurance and medical care insurance in Saskatchewan, 1950-62 -- Medical care insurance in Canada, 1962-84 -- The iconic status of health care in Canada, 1984-2008 -- Contemporary public health insurance in the United States and Canada -- Conclusions and implications
Summary After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insuranceor no insurancefor everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each coun
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index
Notes English
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Subject National health insurance -- United States -- History -- 20th century
National health insurance -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
Politics, Practical.
Health insurance -- United States -- History -- 20th century
National Health Insurance, United States -- history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Politics
Race Relations -- history
Single-Payer System -- history
politics.
MEDICAL -- Medicaid & Medicare.
Politics, Practical
National health insurance
SUBJECT Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Canada
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435660267
1435660269
1589012062
9781589012066
9781589013773
1589013778