National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada Download

Author: Gerard W. Boychuk
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1589012062
Category: Medical

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory, and the Roots of Difference (American Governance and Public Policy series)

After World War II, the United States and Canada, two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Download National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada medical books for free.
Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance -- or no insurance -- for everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country -- the politics of race in the U.S. and territorial po Get National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada our bestseller medical books.

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada Download

Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance -- or no insurance -- for everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country -- the politics of race in the U.S anada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that combines public health insurance for low-income and senior residents with private, primarily employer-provided health insurance -- or no insurance -- for everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each country, honing in on the most distinctive social and political aspects of each country -- the politics of race in the U.S. and territorial po

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