Can I interrupt, please?
I want to ask a question because pretty well everyone said a limitation of a single-payer system—and I would challenge this—is that those systems are all kind of limited in what they provide. What if you want a newer medication? How about if you want a brand product? That's not allowed in those kind of single-payer systems, but it could be. There's nothing to stop it.
There's nothing to prevent an employer, if there's a single-payer system, from offering additional benefits—kind of a top-up system. Just as now, if we go to the hospital, because we get Canada Life insurance, we can get a single room or a room with one other person or something. That's a benefit that you get from Canada Life that you would otherwise not get. That's what's offered.
Couldn't an employer offer a system that provides that kind of top-up coverage, so there would still be that choice if people wanted it? A number of people have said that this is the problem with the single-payer system.