<Li> Tommy Douglas forwarded public health insurance as Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and federal leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to 1971 . </Li> <Li> Woodrow Lloyd was the Premier of Saskatchewan when universal medicare was introduced in Saskatchewan . </Li> <Li> Lester B. Pearson was the Liberal Prime Minister of Canada from 1963 to 1968 . His government saw medicare introduced on a national basis, after his party wrote and introduced the legislation for hospital and out - of - hospital treatment, and received the support of Douglas' NDP . </Li> <Li> Emmett Matthew Hall was a jurist and chair of the 1964 Royal Commission on health care in Canada which recommended the nationwide adoption of Saskatchewan's system of public insurance for both hospitalization and out - of - hospital medical services . In 1996, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien stated that "Canadians will be forever grateful for the pivotal role that (Hall) played in bringing universal medicare to Canada . Throughout his long life, he remained medicare's most eloquent defender". </Li>

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