• Int J Health Serv · Jan 1996

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    Health as an irreversible part of the welfare state: Canadian government policy under the Tories.

    • M A O'Neill.
    • Department of Politics and International Studies University of Warwick Coventry, England.
    • Int J Health Serv. 1996 Jan 1;26(3):547-59.

    AbstractThis article provides an assessment of the health policy of the Canadian Conservative government under Brian Mulroney, 1984-1993. Underlying this assessment is the need to test the theory of the irreversibility of the welfare state in the light of its health component. The author argues that despite a political rhetoric that might have presaged a sharp rollback of Canada's Medicare, either through residualization or progressive commodification, Canada emerged from this period of New Right federal government with its state-funded health care system still in place. This argument is substantiated through a consideration of the social policy model inherited by the Mulroney government and how it was affected by the government's fiscal policies between 1984 and 1993.

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