Making Medicare : : New Perspectives on the History of Medicare in Canada / / Gregory Marchildon.

• VerfasserIn: Marchildon, Gregory,
• MitwirkendeR: Blakeney, Allan,; Boan, Jack,; Boychuk, Terry,; Bryden, P. E.,; Bury, Betsy,; Bury, John D.,; Charles, Aline,; Guérard, François,; Houston, C. Stuart,; Lampard, Robert,; Lawson, Gordon S.,; Macdougall, Heather,; Marchildon, Gregory P.,; Massie, Merle,; Noseworthy, Andrew F.,; O'Byrne, Nicole C.,; Ostry, Aleck,; Pope, Felicity,; Romanow, Roy,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editor's Preface and Acknowledgments -- 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 -- 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 -- Part Two: Individual Provincial Histories of Medicare -- 7. Four Precursors of Medicare in Saskatchewan -- 8. The Road Not Taken: The 1945 Health Services Planning Commission Proposals and Physician Remuneration in Saskatchewan -- 9. The Hoadley Commission (1932-34) and Health Insurance in Alberta -- 10. From Bennettcare to Medicare: The Morphing of Medical Care Insurance in British Columbia -- 11. Newfoundland's Cottage Hospital System: 1920-1970 -- 12. The Partnerships between the State and For-Profit Hospitals in Quebec, 1961-1975: A Disappointing Experiment -- Part Three: Oral History and the Birth of Medicare -- 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 295 HEATHER MACDOUGALL -- Contributors -- Index