| Description |
1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations, map, digital file |
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The Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance |
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Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance.
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| Contents |
1 Canadian Medicare: Why History Matters / Gregory P . Marchildon -- Part One: National History of Medicine. 2 The Foundations of National Public Hospital Insurance / Aleck Ostry -- 3 Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45 41 / Heather Macdougall -- 4 The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare / P . E. Bryden -- 5 Political Cartoonists Respond to Medicare / Felicity Pope -- 6 After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care Reform / Terry Boychuk |
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Part Three: Oral History and the Birth of Medicare Witnesses to Medicare in Saskatchewan: Medicare Workshop at the University of Saskatchewan- Wednesday, 20 May 2007 -- 13 The Struggle to Implement Medicare / Allan Blakeney -- 14 Working for Medicare / Betsy Bury -- 15 A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare / John D. Bury -- 16 My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission / Roy Romanow -- 17 A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services / Jack Boan -- Conclusion -- 18 A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health Policy / Heather Macdougall |
| Summary |
The Canadian health care system is so indisputably tied to our national identity that its founder, Tommy Douglas, was voted the greatest Canadian of all time in a CBC television contest. However, very little has been written to date on how Medicare as we know it was developed and implemented. This collection fills a serious gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive policy history of Medicare in Canada.Making Medicare features explorations of the experiments that predated the federal government's decision to implement the Saskatchewan health care model, from Newfoundland's cottage hospital system to Bennettcare in British Columbia. It also includes essays by key individuals (including health practitioners and two premiers) who played a role in the implementation of Medicare and the landmark Royal Commission on Health Services. Along with political scientists, policy specialists, medical historians, and health practitioners, this collection will appeal to anyone interested in the history and legacy of one of Canada's most visible and centrally important institutions |
| Notes |
Papers previously published in the Canadian bulletin of medical history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
National health insurance -- Canada -- History
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Medical policy -- Canada -- Provinces -- History
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Public health administration -- Canada -- Provinces -- History
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Health Policy -- history
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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National Health Programs -- history
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Insurance -- Risk Assessment & Management.
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National health insurance
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marchildon, Gregory P., 1956-
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| ISBN |
9781442662414 |
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1442662417 |
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