Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.