Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments ix
5. 1. Canadian Medicare: Why History Matters 1
6. Part One: National History of Medicine
7. 2. The Foundations of National Public Hospital Insurance 21
8. 3. Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45 41
9. 4. The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National Medicare 71
10. 5. Political Cartoonists Respond to Medicare 89
11. 6. After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care Reform 110
12. Part Two: Individual Provincial Histories of Medicare
13. 7. Four Precursors of Medicare in Saskatchewan 137
14. 8. The Road Not Taken: The 1945 Health Services Planning Commission Proposals and Physician Remuneration in Saskatchewan 151
15. 9. The Hoadley Commission (1932-34) and Health Insurance in Alberta 183
16. 10. From Bennettcare to Medicare: The Morphing of Medical Care Insurance in British Columbia 207
17. 11. Newfoundland’s Cottage Hospital System: 1920-1970 229
18. 12. The Partnerships between the State and For-Profit Hospitals in Quebec, 1961-1975: A Disappointing Experiment 249
19. Part Three: Oral History and the Birth of Medicare
20. 13. The Struggle to Implement Medicare 277
21. 14. Working for Medicare 282
22. 15. A Physician on the Front Line of Medicare 284
23. 16. My Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods Commission 288
24. 17. A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health Services 291
25. Conclusion
26. 18. A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health Policy 295 HEATHER MACDOUGALL 295
27. Contributors 307
28. Index 311