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This Handbook chapter aims to describe and explain the course of reform in North American healthcare from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the years 2013–2014. First, there is a brief discussion of the place of such a compari- son in the broader field of comparative policy studies. Our approach, which follows a ‘close comparison’ mode of analysis, takes up in turn the decades of dispute over the proper role of government in the financing of healthcare services to its citizens. That history constitutes the bulk of the comparative nar- rative, but is supplemented by two additional elements: a case study of the role of courts in North American healthcare reform, and an extended discussion of the role of political institutions in explaining policy change and continuity more generally.
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Maioni, A., Marmor, T.R. (2015). Health Policy Reform in North America. In: Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L., Wendt, C. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384935_14
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