Canada’s Health-Care System: A Model for the United States?

Theodore R. Marmor is a professor of public policy and management at the Yale University School of Management. His most recent book, coauthored with ]. L. Mashaw and P. L. Harvey, is America’s Misunderstood Welfare State: Persistent Myths, Enduring Realities (New York: Basic Books, 1990). This article is adapted from a chapter in the book, and has been published in a somewhat different form in The American Prospect, vol. 1, no. 3 (Fall 1990).