Medicare (Canada)
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Medicare is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. The system consists of ten provincial and three territorial health insurance plans,
Premier Tommy Douglas, who introduced the medicare bill in Saskatchewan
Allan MacEachen, federal Minister of Health and Welfare, who introduced the bill in Parliament
Tommy Douglas
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Thomas Clement Douglas was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971. A Baptist m
Medicare (Canada)
…provincial health systems. The fight for a broad publicly funded system began at the provincial level, and was originally led by Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas and the CCF, who won the 1960 Saskatchewan general election on a campaign promise of publicly funded health care, over the opposition of the medical…
The Leader-Post announces the CCF victory, 1944
Douglas, c. 1971
The Greatest Canadian, a statue depicting Douglas created by Lea Vivot and installed along the riverfront boardwalk in Weyburn, Saskatchewan