National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada - Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference

Informationen zum Autor Gerard W. Boychuk is director of global governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo! Ontario! Canada. He is also a research fellow of the Institute for Advanced Policy Research at the University of Calgary. Klappentext After World War II! the US and Canada struck out on divergent paths to public health insurance. This work probes the historical development of health care in each country! honing in on the social and political aspects of each country! and the politics of race in the US and territorial politics in Canada. Zusammenfassung After World War II! the US and Canada struck out on divergent paths to public health insurance. This work probes the historical development of health care in each country! honing in on the social and political aspects of each country! and the politics of race in the US and territorial politics in Canada. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Part I: Introduction and Context 1. Explaining Health Insurance in the United States and Canada 2. Similar Beginnings! Different Contexts! 1910-40 Part II: Public Health Insurance in the United States 3. Failure of Reform in the Truman Era! 1943-52 4. The Medicare Package! 1957-65 5. Race and the Clinton Reforms Part III: Public Health Insurance in Canada 6. Federal Failure! Provincial Success -- Reform in Canada! 1945-49 7. National Public Hospital Insurance and Medical Care Insurance in Saskatchewan! 1950-62 8. Medical Care Insurance in Canada! 1962-84 9. The Iconic Status of Health Care in Canada! 1984-2008 Part IV: Conclusions 10. Contemporary Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada 11. Conclusions and Implications Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Gerard W. Boychuk, Gerard William Boychuk
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2008
• EAN: 9781589012066
• ISBN: 978-1-58901-206-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: American Governance and Public Policy Series; American Governance and Public; American Governance and Public Policy series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science