Rhetoric and the origins of the Canadian Medicare system - Texas A&M University (TAMU) Scholar

During the last half of the twentieth century, every developed country embarked on eff orts to provide aff ordable, high-quality health care to its citizens. For both cultural and structural reasons, these eff orts were especially challenging for Canada. In this essay we employ a combination of traditional rhetorical analysis and Sophistic conceptions of mtis (or apat) to examine the origins of the Canadian Medicare system. We focus on the key rhetorical acts that transformed the rhetorical situations faced by policymakers and on the complex processes through which all sides maneuvered around and through the structural and ideational factors that guided and constrained their rhetoric. 2010 Michigan State University Board of Trustees.

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