The point of calling it a misguided war against medicines is simply to draw attention to the fact that the focus on cost containment and the focus on what we spend our health care dollars on is really misguided. At various points in the history of medicare, costs have been focused on what we spend on doctors, and we have held their rates down to below market levels over time. After adjusting for inflation, for instance, Ontario doctors make no more today than they made in the early 1970s.
We have held down expenditures on hospitals. We have amalgamated hospitals. We have allowed them to deteriorate in terms of their modernization. Now, drugs are the latest—