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What's Canadian about Medicare? A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy

Is medicare a reflection of Canadian values? Or did those values develop as we experienced the common ground of a universal system? Nothing in public opinion in Canada and the US in the 1960s, or in their respective healthcare systems, would have suggested that they would evolve in such divergent wa...

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Autor principal: Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Longwoods Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30052186
http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2018.25497
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description Is medicare a reflection of Canadian values? Or did those values develop as we experienced the common ground of a universal system? Nothing in public opinion in Canada and the US in the 1960s, or in their respective healthcare systems, would have suggested that they would evolve in such divergent ways. Instead, decisions taken by political elites set the two systems on very different courses. In Canada, that course profoundly shaped the way we understand ourselves as citizens, and also established a powerful place for clinicians at the political core. In so doing, it insulated the system from change, for both good and ill.
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spelling pubmed-60442632019-05-01 What's Canadian about Medicare? A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes Healthc Policy Discussion and Debate Is medicare a reflection of Canadian values? Or did those values develop as we experienced the common ground of a universal system? Nothing in public opinion in Canada and the US in the 1960s, or in their respective healthcare systems, would have suggested that they would evolve in such divergent ways. Instead, decisions taken by political elites set the two systems on very different courses. In Canada, that course profoundly shaped the way we understand ourselves as citizens, and also established a powerful place for clinicians at the political core. In so doing, it insulated the system from change, for both good and ill. Longwoods Publishing 2018-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6044263/ /pubmed/30052186 http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2018.25497 Text en Copyright © 2018 Longwoods Publishing http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 License, which permits rights to copy and redistribute the work for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is given proper attribution.
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title_fullStr What's Canadian about Medicare? A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy
title_full_unstemmed What's Canadian about Medicare? A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy
title_short What's Canadian about Medicare? A Comparative Perspective on Health Policy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6044263/
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