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1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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American governance and public policy series
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American governance and public policy.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National health insurance -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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National health insurance. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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National health insurance -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Canada. |
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National Health Insurance, United States -- history. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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History, 21st Century. |
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Politics. |
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Race Relations -- history. |
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Single-Payer System -- history. |
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Canada. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Boychuk, Gerard William, 1967- National health insurance in the United States and Canada. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2008 9781589012066 1589012062 (DLC) 2007045440 (OCoLC)180907894 |
| ISBN |
9781435660267 (electronic book) |
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1435660269 (electronic book) |
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1589012062 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781589012066 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781589013773 (electronic book) |
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1589013778 (electronic book) |
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9781589012066 (alkaline paper) |
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