National health insurance in the United States and Canada : race, territory, and the roots of difference /
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. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the United States opted for a dual system that comb...
| Основен автор: | Boychuk, Gerard William, 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Washington, D.C. :
Georgetown University Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
American governance and public policy.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=233778 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
National health insurance in the United States and Canada. |
| Резюме: |
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. 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 insuranceor no insurancefor everyone else. In National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada, Gerard W. Boychuk probes the historical development of health care in each coun. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-224) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781435660267 1435660269 1589012062 9781589012066 9781589013773 1589013778 |