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Explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada. This book shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance.

Table of Contents
AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsCh. 1The United States and Canada in Comparative Context3Ch. 2Parties and Institutions in Health Politics14Ch. 3The 1930s: Early Impasse in Health Reform32Ch. 4The 1940s: False Starts and Failures of Postwar Health Insurance Proposals66Ch. 5The 1950s: Diverging Paths to Health Reform92Ch. 6The 1960s: The Political Battle for Health Insurance119Ch. 7Why Did They Part? Explaining Health Policy Trajectories in the United States and Canada153Ch. 8Point of No Return? Policy Legacies and the Politics of Health Reform166Bibliography179Index199

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/07/1998
      ISBN13: 9780691057965, 978-0691057965
      ISBN10: 0691057966

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the development of health insurance in the United States and Canada. This book shows that Canada's federal structure and its parliamentary institutions encouraged a social-democratic third party that became pivotal in demonstrating the feasibility of universal, public health insurance.

      Table of Contents
      AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsCh. 1The United States and Canada in Comparative Context3Ch. 2Parties and Institutions in Health Politics14Ch. 3The 1930s: Early Impasse in Health Reform32Ch. 4The 1940s: False Starts and Failures of Postwar Health Insurance Proposals66Ch. 5The 1950s: Diverging Paths to Health Reform92Ch. 6The 1960s: The Political Battle for Health Insurance119Ch. 7Why Did They Part? Explaining Health Policy Trajectories in the United States and Canada153Ch. 8Point of No Return? Policy Legacies and the Politics of Health Reform166Bibliography179Index199

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