Medicare
Discussion Questions
- Why were some doctors and hospitals opposed to the new community clinics in Saskatchewan?
- In what ways did the Great Depression influence activists involved in the movement for a public medicare system?
- In what ways did the Cold War shape the debate over medicare?
- How did electoral losses in the late 1950s and early 1960s influence the development of a medicare policy in the Liberal Party?
- What factors influenced the cabinet disagreements over the implementation of a national medicare program?
- Why were the debates over public pensions so consequential for the development of medicare in Canada?
