Bitter Medicine, Part Two : Medicare in Crisis

Shandel, Tom, (film director.). Johnson, George, (film producer.). Shandel, Tom, (film producer.). Taylor, John, (film producer.). Gurstein, Penny, (film producer.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Toronto), (film producer.).

Summary: Part two 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 second part examines national Medicare twenty years after its inception and the bitter struggle among various authorities as they jockey to attain a position of power in a new scheme of things.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (28 min., 00 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2011.
Copyright: ♭1983

Content descriptions

General Note:	Agency - English program:.Pacific Centre. Agency:.Co-produced by the NFB and the CBC.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Available to subscribers only.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Tom Shandel ; script, Tom Shandel ; producer, George Johnson, Tom Shandel ; executive producer, John Taylor ; associate producer, Penny Gurstein ; photography, Brian Hosking, Andy Ormsby, Kirk Tougas ; sound, Gerry King, Mike Oldfield, Norm Rosen, Wolf Ruck, John Uhthoff ; editing, Barbara Evans ; re-recording, Paul Sharpe ; music, Jean Pich.̌
Participant or Performer Note:	Narrator, Ann Petrie.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1983.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-04-05).