As I said, we have the implementation advisory group right now with the rare disease drug strategy. I've been on other advisory groups with the government as well. The challenge, I think, is that in many cases we're not really advisers. There are already decisions being made. The decisions are oftentimes being made behind closed doors. We've been begging the government to tell us what's going on in terms of these bilateral agreements. What are the talks that are taking place? What are the drugs that are being considered? Can we provide some input in terms of what those drugs are? We're given no opportunity to do that.
I think the challenge is that, if we're going to have these committees, they must be transparent. There must be accountability. We've been asking for the opportunity to let the public know what the progress and plans are, and again, we've not been given that opportunity. I think part of the challenge is in the details and making sure.
The other thing I'd like to say is that, as we've heard already, it takes so long to get drugs through the public drug plans. I'm not saying whether or not things can be improved through the public drug plan, but we know that, if you have private insurance today, if a drug is approved, a rare disease drug, you almost always get it as soon as possible. I've had two or three years with patients on a public plan asking, “Where's my drug?”, and it's not yet there. Even though it's going through so-called expert committees, there's no the transparency and there's no ability to have the right people push for those decisions.