National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference

Name: National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference
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ISBN: 9781589012066

ISBN-10: 1589012062

ISBN-13: 9781589012066

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gerard W. Boychuk

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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 insurance-or no insurance-for everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country-the politics of…

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List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Publication date: 7/2/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations and Acronyms



Introduction and Context



Explaining Health Insurance in the United States and Canada



Similar Beginnings, Different Contexts, 1910-40



Public Health Insurance in the United States



Failure of Reform in the Truman Era, 1943-52



The Medicare Package, 1957-65



Race and the Clinton Reforms



Public Health Insurance in Canada



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



Conclusions



Contemporary Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada



Conclusions and Implications


Notes


References


Index