Historical Institutionalism and Health Insurance: Path Dependence and Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada

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The paper examines path dependence analysis of the development of public health insurance in the United States and argues that a number of key interpretations are challenged by a comparative perspective examining the historical development of public healht insurance in Canada.

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Boychuk, Gerard. "Historical Institutionalism and Health Insurance: Path Dependence and Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 20, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p140221_index.html>

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Boychuk, G. W. , 2006-04-20 "Historical Institutionalism and Health Insurance: Path Dependence and Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p140221_index.html

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Abstract: The paper examines path dependence analysis of the development of public health insurance in the United States and argues that a number of key interpretations are challenged by a comparative perspective examining the historical development of public healht insurance in Canada.

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HISTORICAL INSTITUTIONALISM AND HEALTH INSURANCE: Path Dependence and Public Health Insurance in the United States and Canada Gerard W. Boychuk Associate Professor Department of Political Science University of Waterloo gboychuk@uwaterloo.ca Paper prepared for the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference Chicago April 2006. 1 The historical development of public health insurance in the United States – especially the lack of national health insurance -- has undergone renewed scrutiny by a battery of public policy scholars in recent years. (Hacker

623. Taylor Malcolm G. 1987. Health Insurance and Canadian Public Policy: The Seven Decisions that Created the Canadian Health Insurance System and Their Outcomes. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. Taylor Malcolm G. 1990. Insuring National Health Care: The Canadian Experience. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Thelen Kathleen. 2003. “How Institutions Evolve: Insights from Comparative Historical Analysis ” 208-240. In James Mahoney and Dietrich Rueschemeyer ed. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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