Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy
The Seven Decisions That Created the Health Insurance System and Their Outcomes
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773535695
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773535664
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773584976
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $40.95
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In Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy, Malcolm Taylor describes the emergence of Medicare, providing an interesting window into current health care debates. He discusses the seemingly endless series of federal-provincial exchanges and negotiations involving issues of jurisdiction, cost allocations, revenue transfers, and taxing authorities as well as efforts to accommodate opposition from various special interests that would eventually evolve into a system that provided access to adequate health care for all Canadians on the basis of need, irrespective of financial circumstances.
About the authors
Malcolm G. Taylor (1915-1994), professor of public policy, Faculty of Administrative Studies, York University, served as consultant to seven provincial governments, medical and hospital associations, the Royal Commission on Health Services, and the Health
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Allan M. Maslove is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University.