Parting at the Crossroads : the Emergence of Health Insurance in the United States and Canada.

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"Beyond the debate about the desirability of Canadian-style health care reforms, Antonia Maioni sees another question: Why did the United States and Canada, alike in so many ways, part "at the crossroads" to produce such different systems of health insurance? She answers this previous...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Maioni, Antonia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives Ser.
Subjects:
Krankenversicherung
Health insurance > United States.
Health insurance > Canada.
Insurance, Health > history
National Health Insurance, United States
Assurance-maladie > États-Unis.
Assurance-maladie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Health insurance
Canada
United States
Kanada
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Half-title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Chapter One: The United States and Canada in Comparative Context
  • Chapter Two: Parties and Institutions in Health Politics
  • Chapter Three: The 1930s: Early Impasse in Health Reform
  • Chapter Four: The 1940s: False Starts and Failures of Postwar Health Insurance Proposals
  • Chapter Five: The 1950s: Diverging Paths to Health Reform
  • Chapter Six: The 1960s: The Political Battle for Health Insurance
  • Chapter Seven: Why Did They Part? Explaining Health Policy Trajectories in the United States and Canada
  • Chapter Eight: Point of No Return? Policy Legacies and the Politics of Health Reform
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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