The reality is that practically since the ink began to dry on medicare, there have been studies and reports done in Canada on different ways of organizing health services. In fact, when I was a young analyst, I worked on the Manitoba white paper on health policy, which talked about exactly the kinds of questions we're talking about today. It recommended multidisciplinary regional health authorities and all of this, with money allocated in a block and population health being the main decider of how you would allocate your money. We're not short of this.
Various aspects of this do pop up in different parts of the country. It's just that unlike some other countries, we have not embraced it as the main way of doing business.
I'm sure you know better than I that to make changes in the way different professions are funded, organized, and work together requires, first of all, a vision that people are going to stick to over a period of time. This has been talked about so many times, and it's been written about so many times. As I said in my presentation, maybe now--unless Dr. Badley finds that in fact the boomers are not going to suffer from lots of chronic diseases--the pressure is rising. It'll become inescapable, if we want to continue to have a public, financially sustainable health care system, that we can't put off any longer those sorts of changes, which have been written about for 40 years.