Whenever I go through this odd ritual of trying to pick the least-bad private-insurance plan, I think about how my mother's home province of Saskatchewan, Canada, instituted the first single-payer health care plan in North America in 1947.. Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas, nicknamed the "Father of Medicare," authored a plan to fund hospitalizations.
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