The dialogue links a portrait of health reform politics in the US from the seventies to 2008 by Ted Marmor with a comparable, parallel essay by Antonia Maioni about Canada's struggles. The pairing is also unusual in having the North Americans comment on each other's portrayal. They do not...

Canada and the United States are typically regarded as 'laggards' in welfare state development. They are regularly classified together as 'liberal' welfare states, with relatively lower levels of welfare state fiscal effort and coverage. There is some truth to this portrait overall, but in...