My comment was speaking specifically to the federal government's role in public health, which is the prevention and health promotion side of the equation, and it doesn't have a role. I will reassert that the more we keep people healthy, the more likely we'll have a sustainable health care system and keep people out of hospitals except when urgently necessary.
Obviously we need to look at funding across the board, but consistently we don't fund the preventive side of the equation sufficiently. Two to five per cent of the overall health budget is spent on keeping people healthy. That means we put an emphasis on sickness and not on health.