PressProgress Sources
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How to Save Canadian Healthcare, with Dr. Danyaal Raza
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For decades, if you asked a Canadian to name something they appreciated about this country, our universal healthcare system would invariably come up.
But in recent years, chronic underfunding, personnel shortages and the creep of privatization have taken their toll on a system that may or may not remain a point of national pride.
On this episode of Sources, our health reporter, Brishti Basu, talks to Dr. Danyaal Raza, who believes Canada's public healthcare system — "one of the highest expressions of us caring for one another," as he puts it — should be a nation-building priority. Raza is a family doctor at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, a board member at Canadian Doctors for Medicare and a research fellow at the Broadbent Institute (PressProgress is an editorially independent division of the institute.)
They discuss promising models for healthcare already deployed in some parts of the country (team-based care!) and the acute threats the system is facing elsewhere, particularly in Alberta.
You can also read the interview here.