Making medicare new perspectives on the history of medicare in Canada / edited by Gregory P. Marchildon. - Toronto [Ont. : University of Toronto Press, (c)2012. (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013). - 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : illustrations, map, digital file. - The Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance .

Papers previously published in the Canadian bulletin of medical history.

Includes bibliographies and index.

1 Canadian Medicare: Why History Matters / Part One: National History of Medicine. 2 The Foundations of National Public Hospital Insurance / 3 Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45 41 / 4 The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare / 5 Political Cartoonists Respond to Medicare / 6 After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care Reform / Gregory P . Marchildon -- Aleck Ostry -- Heather Macdougall -- P . E. Bryden -- Felicity Pope -- Terry Boychuk 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 / 14 Working for Medicare / 15 A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare / 16 My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission / 17 A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services / Conclusion -- 18 A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health Policy / Allan Blakeney -- Betsy Bury -- John D. Bury -- Roy Romanow -- Jack Boan -- Heather Macdougall.



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National health insurance--History.--Canada
Medical policy--Provinces--History.--Canada
Public health administration--Provinces--History.--Canada
National Health Programs--history.
Health Policy--history.
History, 20th Century.
History, 21st Century.


Electronic Books.

RA412 / .M355 2013