The foundations of National public hospital insurance.
This paper provides the background to provincial and federal government acceptance of a public hospital insurance plan. I describe the development of two-tiered hospitals to the 1920s and the failure of private hospital financing as the Depression unfolded. I then discuss developments in Saskatchewan climaxing in the first provincial public hospital insurance plan and the continuing fiscal stresses facing hospitals in provinces without public plans. Finally, I outline the main reasons why all the provinces signed onto a national public hospital insurance plan.
Ostry
Aleck
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University of Victoria.
D002170:Canada; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D007350:Insurance, Hospitalization / Q000266:history*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000266:history*; D012525:Saskatchewan; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors