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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xvii
6. Timeline xxi
7. TOMMY DOUGLAS AND THE QUEST FOR MEDICARE IN CANADA 1
8. 1 Medicare: The Agony and the Ecstasy 11
9. 2 The Making of a Preacher-Politician 24
10. 3 Federal Member of Parliament, 1935–1944 55
11. 4 Sigerist, Sheps, and Socialism 85
12. 5 Rise and Fall of the Green Book Proposals 124
13. 6 Universal Hospital Insurance in Saskatchewan 143
14. 7 National Health Grants and New Frontiers 175
15. 8 Next-Year Country 203
16. 9 National Influence, 1948–1958 229
17. 10 Setting the Political Agenda Once More 267
18. 11 The Thompson Committee and the New Party 301
19. 12 Political Repudiation 333
20. 13 The Doctors’ Strike and the Cost of Peace 375
21. 14 The Hall Commission and the Leftward Tilt of Canadian Politics 401
22. 15 National Medicare 433
23. 16 Defender of Medicare 455
24. Conclusion 489
25. Notes 497
26. Bibliography 639
27. Index 673