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Emmett Hall on Canada's health-care system in 1980

Broadcast Date: Sept. 7, 1980

In 1979, Justice Emmett Hall is asked to revisit Canada's health-care system and report on its strengths and weaknesses. He returns one year later with a report titled Canada's National-Provincial Health Program for the 1980s, a controversial document that claims extra-billing by doctors and hospital user fees are creating a two-tiered health care system. Hall also concludes that binding arbitration is essential to resolving fee disputes between doctors and Canada's provinces.

Emmett Hall on Canada's health-care system in 1980

• Medicare was not the only revolutionary social change advocated by Emmett Hall. In 1968, Hall and Lloyd A. Dennis tabled the findings of their inquiry into the state of education in Ontario. They argued that education was about "self-realization" as opposed to the traditional emphasis on preparing young Canadians for their economic and social roles. Students, it said, were treated as a little more than a "captive audience" for an "imposed, involuntary and structured" curriculum.

Emmett Hall on Canada's health-care system in 1980

Medium: Radio

Program: Sunday Morning

Broadcast Date: Sept. 7, 1980

Guest(s): Emmett Hall

Host: Patrick Martin
Interviewer: Bronwyn Drainie

Duration: 4:10

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Last updated:
April 30, 2008