CONTENTS -- TABLES -- INTRODUCTION TO THE CARLETON LIBRARY SERIES EDITION -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. The 1945 Health Insurance Proposals: Policymaking for Postwar Canada -- 2. The Saskatchewan Hospital Services Plan: The Policy Decision To Go It Alone -- 3. Ontario Hospital Insurance: The Decision Not To Go It Alone -- 4. The National Hospital Insurance Program: The Case of the Reluctant Decision -- 5. The Saskatchewan Medical Care Insurance Plan: The Decision to Pioneer Again -- 6. The National Medicare Program: Policymaking and Minority Government -- 7. Quebec Medicare: Policy Formulation in Conlict and Crises -- 8. The Outcomes, 1978-87 -- 9. The Continuing Agenda -- 10. Reflections -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.