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From Premier to Father of Universal Healthcare - Tommy Douglas

Douglas proved himself as an outstanding Canadian leader. He is largely responsible for our central banking, old age pensions, unemployment insurance and our ...

From Premier to Father of Universal Healthcare - Tommy Douglas

During 42 years in politics, Douglas proved himself as an outstanding Canadian leader. He is largely responsible for our central banking, ...

From Premier to Father of Universal Healthcare - Tommy Douglas ...

From Premier to Father of Universal Healthcare - Tommy Douglas Born on October 20, 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. In 1911, Tommy, his mother and ...

Introducing Tommy Douglas, Father of the Canadian Health Care ...

Introducing Tommy Douglas, Father of the Canadian Health Care System ... You're never going to step out of the front door into the kingdom of God.

Father of medicare - Wikipedia

Tommy Douglas championed public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971.

Bismarck and the Long Road to Universal Health Coverage - PMC

William Beveridge was born in 1879 in Bengal, India, where his father was a judge in the Indian Civil Service. He trained as a lawyer coming to prominence in ...

The Honourable Thomas Douglas - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

His proposal in 1959 for a universal, pre-paid and publicly administered health care system in Saskatchewan introduced the first program of its kind in North ...

Tommy Douglas | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Tommy Douglas led the first socialist government elected in Canada and is recognized as the father of universal health care in Canada.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland's Grandfather Tommy Douglas ...

But his biggest achievement was the creation of universal health insurance, called Medicare. It passed in Saskatchewan in 1962, guaranteeing ...

How a Baptist Pastor Developed Canada's Single-Payer System

To Tommy Douglas, universal health care was an essential part of the kingdom of God. ... Tommy Douglas, Canada's "Father of Medicare." ... THANKS TO CANADA'S ...

The Fight for Medicare - CBC

Now in 1960, with a provincial election looming, Douglas was ready to take the next step and introduce universal, publicly funded medical care - known as ...

A Brief History of Medicare in Canada

premier Tommy Douglas (Kiefer Sutherland's grandfather, for you younger members), introduced universal medical ... Tommy Douglas, the father of medicare in ...

A Brief History: Universal Health Care Efforts in the US - PNHP

About this time, Henry Sigerist was in the US He was a very influential medical historian at Johns Hopkins University who played a major role in medical ...

Tommy Douglas: Father of Medicare and the Canadian Universal ...

Thomas Clement “Tommy” Douglas laid the foundation for many new policies in the Saskatchewan province of Canada as Premier, many of which were later adopted at ...

Tommy Douglas - Wikipedia

Thomas Clement Douglas PC CC SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of ...

Tommy Douglas A Remarkable Canadian - PNHP

Although he is most famous as the founding father of Medicare, the most advanced health-care system in the world, Douglas' contributions to Saskatchewan and ...

Canada's universal health-care system: achieving its potential - PMC

When Douglas later became the Social Democratic Premier of Saskatchewan, he implemented universal public health insurance for the province, making it the first ...

How Canada got universal health care and what the U.S. could learn

Three years later, the same politicians, led by Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas, replaced the privately insured and funded health care ...

Tommy Douglas- creator of universal health care in Canada

had a knee condition that his parents could not afford to get a ... Premier, and then pushed for it to become available for everyone ...

Tommy Douglas was one of Canada's greatest citizens

Douglas, the seventh premier of Saskatchewan, introduced the first single-payer, universal health care program in North America in 1961. The ...