Description
Book SynopsisThis collection fills a serious gap in the existing literature by providing a comprehensive policy history of Medicare in Canada.
Trade Review"Making Medicare fills a void [in the history of Canadian medicine]. Contributors in a series of essays recount the Canadian struggle for public health insurance. The result is insightful and surprising – like the story of the "cottage hospitals" of Newfoundland & Labrador." -- Holly Doan * Blacklocks Reporter, March 21, 2020 *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Gregory P. Marchildon (The University of Regina) * Canadian Medicare: Why History Matters Gregory P. Marchildon Part One: National History of Medicare * The Foundations of National Public Hospital Insurance Aleck Ostry (University of Victoria) * Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45 Heather MacDougall (University of Waterloo) * The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare P.E. Bryden (University of Victoria) * After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care Reform Terry Boychuk (Macalester College) Part Two: Individual Provincial Histories of Medicare * Four Precursors of Medicare in Saskatchewan C. Stuart Houston and Merle Massie (University of Saskatchewan) * The Road Not Taken: The 1945 Health Services Planning Commission Proposals and Physician Remuneration in Saskatchewan Gordon S. Lawson (Public Works and Government Services Canada) * The Hoadley Commission (1932-34) and Health Insurance in Alberta Robert Lampard (University of Alberta) * From Bennettcare to Medicare: The Morphing of Medical Care Insurance in British Columbia Gregory P. Marchildon and Nicole C. O'Byrne (University of New Brunswick) * Newfoundland's Cottage Hospital System, 1920-1970 Gordon S. Lawson and Andrew F. Noseworthy (Former Deputy Clerk and Associate Secretary to Cabinet, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador) * The State and For-Profit Hospitals in Quebec, 1961-1975 Aline Charles (Universite Laval) and Francois Guerard (Universite du Quebec a Chicoutimi) Part Three: Other Perspectives * The Struggle to Implement Medicare Allan Blakeney (former Premier of Saskatchewan) * Working for Medicare Betsy Bury (Saskatoon Community Clinic) * A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare John Bury * My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission Roy Romanow (former Premier of Saskatchewan) * A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services Jack Boan (University of Regina) * Political Cartoonists Respond to Medicare Felicity Pope Conclusion * A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health Policy Heather MacDougall (University of Waterloo)
