Since I'm on the front line, I see it on a regular basis, where people now don't have benefits coverage, so stop taking their medication and end up in the emergency room with a bleeding ulcer, let's say, and then have to have emergency surgery, and so on.
There is a financial cost to the system, as well as a human cost, to not having a pharmacare plan for all people living in Canada. I think the savings that implementation of a pharmacare plan would reap would be able to support some of the things we've heard put forward today by the other witnesses. The cost savings of a national public pharmacare plan would be able to support the programs and plans that so need that coverage, up to and including the long-term care situation that we have going on now. We could support them with additional funds for proper care and levels of care delivery.