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BL
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1028998
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b783368
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Boychuk, Gerard William,1967-
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National health insurance in the United States and Canada : : race, territory, and the roots of difference /\ Gerard W. Boychuk.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Georgetown University Press,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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American governance and public policy series
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1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) :: illustrations.
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| ISBN
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1435660269
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: 1589012062
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: 1589013778
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: 9781435660267
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: 9781589012066
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: 9781589013773
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9781589012066
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index.
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| Contents
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Explaining health insurance in the United States and Canada -- Similar beginnings, different contexts, 1910-40 -- Failure of reform in the Truman era, 1943-52 -- The medicare package, 1957-65 -- Race and the Clinton reforms -- Federal failure, provincial success: reform in Canada, 1945-49 -- National public hospital insurance and medical care insurance in Saskatchewan, 1950-62 -- Medical care insurance in Canada, 1962-84 -- The iconic status of health care in Canada, 1984-2008 -- Contemporary public health insurance in the United States and Canada -- Conclusions and implications.
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| Abstract
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After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insuranceor no insurancefor everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each coun.
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National health insurance-- Canada-- History-- 20th century.
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National health insurance-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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MEDICAL-- Medicaid Medicare.
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National health insurance.
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National Health Insurance, United States-- history-- Canada.
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National Health Insurance, United States-- history-- United States.
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History, 20th Century-- Canada.
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History, 20th Century-- United States.
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History, 21st Century-- Canada.
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History, 21st Century-- United States.
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Politics-- Canada.
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Politics-- United States.
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Race Relations-- history-- Canada.
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Race Relations-- history-- United States.
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Single-Payer System-- history-- Canada.
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Single-Payer System-- history-- United States.
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Canada.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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368.4/2
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| LC Classification
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RA412.2.B69 2008eb
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| NLM classification
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W 275 AA1B789n 2008
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