Some around the table might say I live in a remote community, but I live in Prince Edward Island and for us when it comes to health care, we are always sending people either to Halifax or to Saint John, so it is a problem. They're always sent out by medevac. There may be possibilities there.
I do want to make a point regarding what you said, Dr. Mendez. Last weekend I was in Austin, Texas, to attend a meeting where the big issue was health care in the United States. While a lot of the discussion was on the fiscal cliff and the deficit and so on, one of the higher-ups in the treasury department said that he had been at the OECD. He was talking about the huge cost to the American health care system as compared to anywhere else in the world. He put it this way. He said that when he had to go to a doctor when he was in France—he was there for 10 years—he saw a secretary or an administrator and the doctor. When he came back to the United States, when he made an appointment to see the doctor, he saw four people first. The doctor recommended he have an MRI and an X-ray. Part of the problem in the United States is that the doctor owned the equipment, so there was a charge for the MRI and the X-ray whether he needed them or not, and he felt he didn't.
Madam Chair, I raise that point because I think that's one thing we have to keep in mind—