GC19 National Health Insurance (1960N132)

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THIS General Council:

  1. RE-ENDORSE the principle of a National Health Insurance Plan;
  2. COMMEND the Province of Saskatchewan for steps being taken to implement such a program on the provincial level; and
  3. URGE the federal government in cooperation with the medical, dental, pharmaceutical and related professions to establish a comprehensive national health insurance program.

 

GC19 1960 ROP, p. 77, 101

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