This book draws on the life of Tommy Douglas to examine the history of universal health coverage - commonly known as Medicare - in Canada.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Medicare: The Agony and the Ecstasy
2. The Making of a Preacher-Politician
3. Federal Member of Parliament, 1935-1944
4. Sigerist, Sheps, and Socialism
5. Rise and Fall of the Green Book Proposals
6. Hospitalization in Saskatchewan
7. National Health Grants and New Frontiers
8. Next Year Country
9. National Influence, 1948-1958
10. Setting the Political Agenda Once More
11. The Thompson Committee and the New Party
12. Repudiation
13. Doctors’ Strike and the Cost of Peace
14. The Hall Commission and the Leftward Tilt of Canadian Politics
15. National Medicare
16. Defender of Medicare
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Gregory P. Marchildon is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation at the University of Toronto and the founding director of the North American Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.