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Bitter Medicine, Part One: The Birth of Medicare - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB524034
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: George Johnson, Tom Shandel, Penny Gurstein, John Taylor
Directors: Tom Shandel
Producing Agencies: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Toronto), National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Canadian History, Documentary, Health and Medicine, Medicine
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1983
Running Time: 27:15
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Bitter Medicine, Part One: The Birth of Medicare - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB524034
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: George Johnson, Tom Shandel, Penny Gurstein, John Taylor
Directors: Tom Shandel
Producing Agencies: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Toronto), National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Canadian History, Documentary, Health and Medicine, Medicine
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1983
Running Time: 27:15
Click here for pricing
Part one of a two-part documentary examining Canada's national health insurance system from its conception on the Canadian Prairies in the early part of the century to its present state of crisis. This first part traces the events leading to July 2, 1962, the day on which Medicare was launched in Saskatchewan. The doctors reacted to the plan by declaring a general strike. The film recreates this stormy chapter of Canadian history through film and television archives and personal testimonies, particularly those of former Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas and Chief Justice Emmett Hall.