The best way to do that I think is to incentivize interprovincial policy competition. When residents of P.E.I. see that their neighbours in a different province get better access to drugs than they do, they should pressure their governments to do something about it.
Health care is a jurisdiction of the provinces, and I believe it should remain this way, because there is a lot of value to that interprovincial policy competition.
I think what we're talking about here are governments that are attempting to hide behind the facade of sustainability when in fact health care finances are not sustainable. They're doing that by rationing access instead of reforming health care, by doing some of the things that are done in other countries, such as allowing user fees for publicly funded services, allowing the development of parallel private health insurance, for instance.
Drug insurance in this country is actually operating very well at the private sector level. The only problem is that some people do not have employment in order to obtain it, or they lack the income to obtain it.
Our public program should be identifying people who have catastrophic expenses and who also lack the income or insurance to cover those expenses, which is a very small percentage of the population, and it's a population that's amenable to sustainable insurance approaches.
So I would recommend something entirely different from a national program.