Thank you.
You are certainly speaking of something near and dear to my heart. I believe that every Canadian should have access to a family physician who is supported by a comprehensive team or a nurse practitioner.
I have two comments. One is that I have real concern that what we have right now is a sort of scattering of models, and I think in some ways where we have effective teams--I'll use integrated health networks in British Columbia--you have people who are attached to a physician in those settings where you could, perhaps, see a respiratory therapist within a few days for a spirometry versus having to wait six months for the regular system. So until we fully flip into a model that works in each province, we have really created some real inequities. I guess that is a concern.
I don't know if anyone has any comments on that.