Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy: The Seven Decisions That Created the Health Insurance System and Their Outcomes

by Malcolm G. Taylor and Allan M. Maslove

Medicare in Canada is not only this country's most treasured social programme, it has become a defining national characteristic. Even with recent concerns over flaws in the system - long waiting times, shortages of key service providers - leading to questions about the possible benefits of a two-tiered approach, the consensus is that single-payer, publicly funded health care has worked for forty years to provide Canadians with accessible, high quality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773535691
• ISBN13: 9780773535695
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 563 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"