I'm going to challenge you a little more again on your assertion that a public system necessarily results in less choice.
When I go into a hospital, which is a public facility, and I need prescription drugs, I can get every single drug I need. I'm 53 years old, and I've never heard a story of someone going into a hospital and coming out of surgery or going into surgery who couldn't get a prescription drug. In fact, the stories we're hearing at this committee are the opposite: the problem is that people go into an acute care system in the hospital, get the prescriptions they need, come out of hospital, and then for a variety of reasons, if they don't have private coverage, can't get the prescriptions they need. Then they get incredibly sick and end up back in the acute care system, which is far more expensive.
Can you explain to me why, if the public health care system is unable to provide the full variety of prescriptions we need, this is not the experience we have when we go to hospitals, which are public institutions?