National health insurance in the United States and Canada : race, territory, and the roots of difference / Gerard W. Boychuk.

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2008], ©2008.

xxii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.