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Medicare's Histories - Origins, Omissions, and Opportunities in Canada (Paperback)
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Medicare is arguably Canada's most valued social program. As
federally-supported medicare enters its second half-century,
Medicare's Histories brings together leading social and health
historians to reflect on the origins and evolution of medicare and
the missed opportunities characterizing its past and present.
Embedding medicare in the diverse constituencies that have given it
existence and meaning, contributors inquire into the strengths and
weaknesses of publicly insured health care and critically examine
medicare's unfinished role in achieving greater health equity for
all people in Canada regardless of race, status, gender, class,
age, and ability.Fundamental to the stories told in Medicare's
Histories is the essential role played by communities - of
activists, critics, health professionals, First Nations, patients,
families, and survivors - in driving demands for health reform, in
identifying particular omissions and inequities exacerbated or even
created by medicare, and in responding to the realities of medicare
for those who work in and rely on it. Contributors to this volume
show how medicare has been shaped by politics (in the broadest
sense of that word), identities, professional organizations, and
social movements in Canada and abroad. As COVID lays bare social
inequities and the inadequacies of health care delivery and public
health, this book shows what was excluded and what was - and is -
possible in health care.
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