Medicare

  • The Father of Medicare

    Tommy Douglas wins the election and becomes the leader of Saskatchewan
  • Canadians Ponder the welfare state

    Labour government establishes a universal health care scheme as part of its post-war Welfare State
  • Ontario's CCF encourages Canadians to vote for medicare

    Andrew Brewin encourages Canadians to vote for mediacre
  • Canadians discuss the possibility of mediace

    Canadian citizens discuss the topis of medicarw and the possiblity of it in Canada
  • Canada's women on heath plan

    the Liberal government proposes a plan that would make Ottawa pay 50 per cent of the costs of hospital care
  • Saskatchewan Doctors go on strike

    Saskatchewan's Medical Care Act becomes law. But the doctors took advantage of the healthhcare scheme and went on strike
  • Thretas to replace doctors

    Replacement doctors are threatened by medicare opponent
  • Rough ride in Regina

    Medicare opponents from around Saskatchewan gather at the provincial legislature in Regina as the doctor strike peaks
  • Saskatchewan Doctors on strike Part 1

    many programs examine why it is that Saskatchewan doctors are opposed to medicare in 1962.
  • Pros and cons

    People are worried as they discuss the ups and downs of medicare
  • Saskatchewan doctor strike is over

    The doctors os Saskatchewan are not in stike
  • Will mediacre stretch our resources?

    A doctor discusses a shortage of health care professionals.
  • Healthcare experiment

    The federal government begins to study the possibility of making a new medicare experiment
  • Farm Forum

    Justice Emmett Hall makes the case for national health care to Farm Forum listeners.
  • Medicare becomes a law

    Canadian mediacre becomes a law
  • Justice Emmett Hall speaks

    Justice Emmett Hall is asked to revisit Canada's health-care system and report on its ups and downs
  • Reaction to Emmett Halls speach

    Canadians react to Emmett Halls speach
  • Medicare Today

    Todays medicare is a major improvement on medicare in the past and its all because of Tommy Douglas inventing free health care to all Canadians