Karl Nerenberg: What we need is a properly organized health care system

Canada’s public health care system is facing a crisis. Recently, the federal and provincial governments just struck a deal on health care funding – but is it enough? 

In this clip, rabble parliamentary reporter Karl Nerenberg explains: “Doctors shouldn’t be businesspeople. Doctors should be doctors.”

Karl Nerenberg is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker, working in both English and French languages. He is rabble’s parliamentary correspondent and a regular panelist on Off the Hill.

This is a clip from rabble’s most recent live politics panel: ‘Off the Hill: Tackling systemic inequalities.’ The panel featured guests MP Matthew Green, Richard Sharpe, Stephen Brown and Karl Nerenberg. With host Robin Browne. 

Off the Hill is a fast-paced live panel on current issues of national significance, hosted by Robin Browne and Libby Davies. This series focuses on the impact politics and policy have on people, and on ways to mobilize to bring about progressive change in national politics — on and off the hill. To support Off the Hill, visit rabble.ca/donate.

Karl Nerenberg

Karl Nerenberg joined rabble in 2011 to cover Canadian politics. He has worked as a journalist and filmmaker for many decades, including two and a half decades at CBC/Radio-Canada. Among his career highlights...