Making Medicare

Gregory P. Marchildon is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and the founding director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

"Making Medicare fills a void [in the history of Canadian medicine]. Contributors in a series of essays recount the Canadian struggle for public health insurance. The result is insightful and surprising – like the story of the "cottage hospitals" of Newfoundland & Labrador."- Holly Doan (Blacklocks Reporter, March 21, 2020)

• Preface and AcknowledgementsGregory P. Marchildon (The University of Regina) Canadian Medicare: Why History MattersGregory P. MarchildonPart One: National History of Medicare The Foundations of National Public Hospital InsuranceAleck Ostry (University of Victoria)Into Thin Air: Making National Health Policy, 1939-45Heather MacDougall (University of Waterloo)The Liberal Party and the Achievement of National MedicareP.E. Bryden (University of Victoria)After Medicare: Regionalization and Canadian Health Care ReformTerry Boychuk (Macalester College)Part Two: Individual Provincial Histories of Medicare Four Precursors of Medicare in SaskatchewanC. Stuart Houston and Merle Massie (University of Saskatchewan)The Road Not Taken: The 1945 Health Services Planning Commission Proposals and Physician Remuneration in SaskatchewanGordon S. Lawson (Public Works and Government Services Canada)The Hoadley Commission (1932-34) and Health Insurance in AlbertaRobert Lampard (University of Alberta)From Bennettcare to Medicare: The Morphing of Medical Care Insurance in British ColumbiaGregory P. Marchildon and Nicole C. O'Byrne (University of New Brunswick)Newfoundland's Cottage Hospital System, 1920-1970Gordon S. Lawson and Andrew F. Noseworthy (Former Deputy Clerk and Associate Secretary to Cabinet, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)The State and For-Profit Hospitals in Quebec, 1961-1975Aline Charles (UniversitÉ Laval) and FranÇois GuÉrard (UniversitÉ du QuÉbec À Chicoutimi)Part Three: Other Perspectives The Struggle to Implement MedicareAllan Blakeney (former Premier of Saskatchewan)Working for MedicareBetsy Bury (Saskatoon Community Clinic)A Physician on the Front Line of MedicareJohn BuryMy Experience in the Medicare Battle and the Woods CommissionRoy Romanow (former Premier of Saskatchewan)A Brief Retrospective on the Royal Commission on Health ServicesJack Boan (University of Regina)Political Cartoonists Respond to MedicareFelicity PopeConclusion A New Prescription: Adding Historical Analysis to Health PolicyHeather MacDougall (University of Waterloo)