I do not want to point the finger at any government in particular, but as I said earlier, I believe that we are at a crucial junction for the entire health care system. I do not believe that we are going to find solutions by just tinkering with our structures and with funding. We need to figure out how to organize care around the individual.
Until now, there has been talk about integrating structures. But we have to begin by talking about integrating services around people who need care. If we do that, we will be able to say that people need a whole range of services. For example, elderly people who are very disabled need to have snow removal services at home. The funding would have to cover that type of cost. The funding would have to align with the needs of individuals. The organization has to align with the needs of individuals, and not the opposite, namely patients should not have to align with the needs of organizations and with the funding requirements of the health care system. We therefore have to flip our approach around.