I'll take a step up and in part get back to the question of generic drugs.
The innovations that occurred in the pharmaceutical sector in the eighties and the nineties were profound and important for the health of a large number of people in Canada. It's unfortunate that many people can't afford to fill their prescriptions, but one policy innovation would be to give away those drugs that are now generic to all Canadians for free, and to acquire those drugs using a tendering process that drives the prices down to the point where it would actually cost the government less to give these away than it does today to basically subsidize the purchases of the poor and the elderly.
I really think we need to think about managing health care innovation as a whole, not just one-off technologies. Generic acquisition is one way to manage the technologies of the past and actually secure some savings so that we can better afford the technologies of the future.