In this video interview, captured following his adddress to participants at the Annual General Meeting of Grand River CHC in Brantford, Ontario, Dr. Michael Rachlis describes the wisdom of Tommy Douglas’s vision for the “Second Stage of Medicare”. As Rachlis notes, Community Health Centres are uniquely positioned to help Canadians achieve that second stage of Medicare and to improve health and wellbeing across the country. You can hear more from Dr. Rachlis during a special opening session of the September 2013 conference Medicare@50: Our Healthy Future and the Role of Community Health Centres.
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