I think the size of the veterans affairs drug budget is approximately the same size, maybe give or take a billion dollars, to the size of the budget in the Province of Ontario for prescription drugs. I want to say $5 billion; I'm not sure. The fellow who chairs their equivalent of that formulary committee which Anne continues to serve on is a guy named Bernie Good. He's a physician. I don't know whether you have the opportunity to call witnesses from the United States, but he is very knowledgeable about this, and could take you through all of the details of how they've managed to hold drug costs down, and provide access, actually, to medications that we don't provide access to in Canada.
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