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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | American governance and public policy.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.