Let me have a follow-up to that question. Many of the criticisms I hear today, some that you're hearing actually at this meeting, expressing why a universal first-dollar single-payer system won't work say that it's too expensive, that there will be reduced choice for consumers, that they won't be able to get the drugs they want. These are exactly the arguments that were made in the 1960s as to why Canada couldn't have a universal health care system—exactly the same arguments.
I'm wondering. A Canadian today can walk into a doctor's office, can get the treatment they need for whatever it is, from a broken finger to treatment for depression to treatment for psoriasis or whatever—literally thousands of different possibilities are treated by the doctor—and can walk out and not pay a penny. That service is paid for administratively under the single-payer system.
Is there any reason, in your view, Ms. Huberman, that a person couldn't walk into the pharmacy, hand over the prescription, get the prescription pills they need, and then that the pharmacist submit the bill, just as the doctor does in the health care system? Is there any reason we couldn't extend pharmacare under the same sort of principle and model that we already have for universal health care?