Thank you, Chair.
My first question is to Ms. Fralick, and it has to do with—how should I say?—the insanity of the health care system. The doctors, for better or for worse, are the gatekeepers, but the gatekeepers don't seem to be overly enthusiastic about ceding jurisdiction anywhere. So you have a doctor writing a prescription for a patient. The doctor has taken maybe one or two courses in pharmacology and he's telling the person who has taken four years of it the appropriate prescription for this patient. You have doctors telling a patient whether they need physio or OT, and the physio or OT can't go outside the doctor's prescription, even though the physio or OT has studied the subject matter for four years and probably knows 10 times what the doctor knows.
The difficulty for us as policy-makers is that in some respects the health care business hasn't got its act together. We just keep bandaiding and bandaiding with more and more money, and it becomes less and less effective. I'd be interested in your thoughts on how the health care professions are going to fix themselves.