Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and acronyms
pt. 1. Introduction and context
1. Explaining health insurance in the United States and Canada
2. Similar beginnings, different contexts, 1910-40
pt. 2. 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
pt. 3. 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
pt. 5. Conclusions
10. Contemporary public health insurance in the United States and Canada
11. Conclusions and implications
Notes
References
Index.