Season 2 Premiere: The Race to Save Medicare from Privatization

To open this new season, Kyla sits down with retired registered nurse and author Cathy MacNeil to talk about her book Dying to Be Seen: The Race to Save Medicare in Canada. Over fifty years in the system — bedside nursing, ICU, hospital administration, and long-term care management — Cathy watched Canadian Medicare go from a hard-won, world-admired achievement to a system she believes is being deliberately dismantled. They trace the story from Tommy Douglas and the birth of Medicare in Saskatchewan, through the devastating cuts of the 1990s, to today's privatization pressures in provinces like Alberta and Nova Scotia — and close...