Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for joining us today.
Mr. Alvarez, I would like to come back to something you said in your conclusion. You quoted some figures that are sure to please the Auditor General, and perhaps she will be tempted, during the course of her study on electronic health care, to take a closer look at them. However, I'd like you to elaborate further on your comments.
You told us that while it would cost $1 billion a year over ten years to implement an effective system, the resulting savings would be in the order of $6 to $7 billion a year. In addition, this would put an end to adverse events in relation to prescription drugs and post-market surveillance.
I would simply like to know how you came up with these figures. If they are conclusive, how is it that everyone who hears them is not proclaiming this as the solution for the future? For an outlay of $1 billion a year over 10 years, we can save $7 billion a year. It seems to me that if these figures were accurate, we would already have opted for this course of action.
Could you elaborate further on this scenario.