The challenge lies in confusion. Look at dental. How many people think that the coverage is the same? They go to cancel it, and then they're left with nothing.
This way, shifting that cost entirely to the public system, would be at great risk. We have a longer list of covered medications that get...faster under the employer system that we need to protect and have in place. We need that system to help people who can't afford both base medications and those high costs.
Let's keep innovation coming to Canada with those therapies for cancer and other conditions that are costing patients, who are struggling to afford them even a 10% copay, tens of thousands of dollars.
Thank you.