Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911-1966

by David Naylor

Naylor's particular concern is with the nature and extent of the medical profession's opposition at both the provincial and federal levels. He details various developments in medical politics and policies, including the dispute over state health insurance plans in British Columbia during the depression, the national health insurance program drafted by the King government, the doctors' strike in Saskatchewan, and the development and eventual governmental rejections of prepayment plans sponsored by organized medicine.

320 pages, ebook

First published September 1, 1986