HLTH 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canada Health Act, New Public Management, Socialized Medicine
17 Jan 2018
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Introduced bill to legislative assembly: doctors concerned with public insurance plan; withdrew all services except emergency services, strike ended when both sides came to an agreement; the saskatoon agreement. Public opinion was on the side of universal medical care. * federalism: form of government which includes regional and central levels of organization (provinces + territories) 1964 - royal commission on health services (hall commission) rejected voluntary insurance: recommended saskatchewan design for national medicare because, lower cost with single-payer admin, efficiency of covering the entire population. 1965 federal-provincial conference, pearson presented criteria for provinces to get federal funding for health care: public administration, comprehensive benefits, portability (province to province, universality. 1972 all provinces signed on to 50-50 cost-sharing agreement with the federal government: provide health services through public insurance system. Lecture 4: federalism and the canada health act. 1972 health insurance started, provinces all go on board. 1990s decline of social insurance, beginning of neo-liberal era thatcher and reagan .
