Absolutely. I feel this may also address a lot of the questions surrounding whether or not prescriptions would get out of control if we did have a national pharmacare program. I think to answer that you need to look beyond pharmacare itself. I think the answer may lie in receiving multidisciplinary care. A lot of aging Canadians may live with one or more conditions. For example, if you live with rheumatoid arthritis, you may also suffer from depression, or you may also have to deal with inflammatory bowel disease. In the case of Canada, because we lack multidisciplinary care, treatments are offered by very different specialist groups. So you have a senior with three separate conditions, each of which may be treated individually.
National pharmacare may not address all those issues, but we hope that it may lead to more discussions around how Canadians, and seniors in particular, receive their care, and the means necessary to get access to all three doctors talking together, and receiving coordinated care to make sure that the medications they take are the ones that are most effective.