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National health insurance in the United States and Canada : race, territory, and the roots of difference /
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 comb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | American governance and public policy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435660267 1435660269 1589012062 9781589012066 9781589013773 1589013778 |