| Acknowledgments | |
| List of Abbreviations | |
| Ch. 1 | The United States and Canada in Comparative Context | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Parties and Institutions in Health Politics | 14 |
| Ch. 3 | The 1930s: Early Impasse in Health Reform | 32 |
| Ch. 4 | The 1940s: False Starts and Failures of Postwar Health Insurance Proposals | 66 |
| Ch. 5 | The 1950s: Diverging Paths to Health Reform | 92 |
| Ch. 6 | The 1960s: The Political Battle for Health Insurance | 119 |
| Ch. 7 | Why Did They Part? Explaining Health Policy Trajectories in the United States and Canada | 153 |
| Ch. 8 | Point of No Return? Policy Legacies and the Politics of Health Reform | 166 |
| Bibliography | 179 |
| Index | 199 |