Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
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American governance and public policy series |
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American governance and public policy.
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
National health insurance -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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National health insurance -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Politics, Practical.
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Health insurance -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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National Health Insurance, United States -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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Politics
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Race Relations -- history
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Single-Payer System -- history
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politics.
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MEDICAL -- Medicaid & Medicare.
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Politics, Practical
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National health insurance
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SUBJECT |
Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 |
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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Canada
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781435660267 |
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1435660269 |
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1589012062 |
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9781589012066 |
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9781589013773 |
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1589013778 |
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