Making Medicare : New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada /

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The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This c...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marchildon, Gregory (Autor)
Otros Autores: Blakeney, Allan (Contribuidor), Boan, Jack (Contribuidor), Boychuk, Terry (Contribuidor), Bryden, P. E. (Contribuidor), Bury, Betsy (Contribuidor), Bury, John D. (Contribuidor), Charles, Aline (Contribuidor), Guérard, François (Contribuidor), Houston, C. Stuart (Contribuidor), Lampard, Robert (Contribuidor), Lawson, Gordon S. (Contribuidor), Macdougall, Heather (Contribuidor), Marchildon, Gregory P. (Contribuidor), Massie, Merle (Contribuidor), Noseworthy, Andrew F. (Contribuidor), Ostry, Aleck (Contribuidor), O'Byrne, Nicole C. (Contribuidor), Pope, Felicity (Contribuidor), Romanow, Roy (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Temas:
Medical policy > Canada > Provinces > History.
National health insurance > Canada > History.
Public health administration > Canada > Provinces > History.
HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Editor's Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. Canadian Medicare: Why History Matters
  • Part One: National History of Medicine
  • 2. The Foundations of National Public Hospital Insurance
  • 3. Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45
  • 4. The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare
  • 5. Political Cartoonists Respond to Medicare
  • 6. After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care Reform
  • Part Two: Individual Provincial Histories of Medicare
  • 7. Four Precursors of Medicare in Saskatchewan
  • 8. The Road Not Taken: The 1945 Health Services Planning Commission Proposals and Physician Remuneration in Saskatchewan
  • 9. The Hoadley Commission (1932-34) and Health Insurance in Alberta
  • 10. From Bennettcare to Medicare: The Morphing of Medical Care Insurance in British Columbia
  • 11. Newfoundland's Cottage Hospital System: 1920-1970
  • 12. The Partnerships between the State and For-Profit Hospitals in Quebec, 1961-1975: A Disappointing Experiment
  • Part Three: Oral History and the Birth of Medicare
  • 13. The Struggle to Implement Medicare
  • 14. Working for Medicare
  • 15. A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare
  • 16. My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission
  • 17. A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services
  • Conclusion
  • 18. A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health Policy 295 HEATHER MACDOUGALL
  • Contributors
  • Index

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