Thank you very much.
For us, the concern is to make sure that.... As you know, there are essential medicines, but in many cases, there are much more personalized medicines. There are much higher-level medicines that are especially for those people who have that need.
Therefore, I would agree very much with Ms. Silas. If you need an essential medicine, if you need a basic medicine, as you say, with OHIP+, that would be available. Quite frankly, we would love to have the bill make it so that everybody gets the medicine they need and so that nobody is actually reduced to a common medicine if, in fact, what they need is much more specialized.
Today we have private and public insurance for rare disease drugs. I have to say that the sad news is that we get, over and over again, patients who tell us that the first question they'll be asked is whether they have private insurance. If they don't have private insurance, then they won't even get prescribed the appropriate medicine because it's not going to be covered by the public plan.
If there's a plan that provides, as you say, the optimal choice for each and every patient so that they can get what is absolutely the best for them.... In many cases, people end up in hospital because they don't have the right drug.
Yes, we would love to have a plan that would allow everybody to get what they need regardless.