I think we have to continue to focus on ways of reforming the system and better ways of using the money that's currently invested.
We have to look very critically at scopes of practice of health care professionals. We have been very interested in the experiment in Alberta to look at better utilization of pharmacists, where pharmacists have been given prescriptive authority under some well-defined conditions.
I think we heard from earlier presenters today looking at the need to actually invest in home care and long-term care. If we can keep people out of hospitals for longer, and if we can treat people with minor ailments using pharmacists or nurse practitioners, we don't have to always rely on the physicians.
The whole issue of health care reform is something I think we need to continue to work on.
I have one caution. I've heard twice this morning about New Zealand and bulk purchasing of drugs. That has been fairly disastrous in New Zealand. It has led to significant drug shortages, because with bulk purchasing you create a monopoly supplier. If the monopoly supplier has problems with raw materials or manufacturing, you lose that supplier in the market and suddenly you have no drugs. So I think there needs to be some caution about some of the solutions.
Thank you.