HLTB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Health Care In Canada, Allopathic Medicine, Flexner Report
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Plan model: 1957: hospital insurance & diagnostic services act (nation-wide, 1961: saskatchewan medical care insurance act (1962 drs. Strike!: 1964/65: hall commission (federal) recommends saskatchewan plus, 1966: medical care act (federal) universal, comprehensive, publicly, 1984: canada health act (federal) replaces hidsa & mca; adds. Accessibility : since the beginning, concerns about a system in crisis . Early days: humoral theory, heroic medicine, apprenticeship, plenty of competition. Rise of science: testing hypothesis in controlled experiments. Doctors were illiterate, lecture style classes, no more apprenticeships (lots of high standards: advances: handwashing (doctors never used to wash their hands between clients) antibiotics into in the 1940s. Ontario medical act (1869) before flexner report. A brief history of canadian health care system. Mds opposed medicare; preferred free-market model private for-profit . Lyon mackenzie king"s (10th pm of canada) proposal for universal h/c. Private insurance companies + conservatives also opposed medicare. was rejected.
