Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
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.
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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.
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National health insurance in the United States and Canada.
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National health insurance-- Canada-- History-- 20th century.
National health insurance-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
History, 20th Century-- Canada.
History, 20th Century-- United States.
History, 21st Century-- Canada.
History, 21st Century-- United States.
National Health Insurance, United States-- history-- Canada.
National Health Insurance, United States-- history-- United States.