I can comment.
As my other colleagues have said, I think it's challenging in that it's not just one issue. The funding is one aspect of it for sure, but again there's also the challenge around the capacity of having the physician assessors able to take on more of these folks to help them go through the process.
Again, what you're hearing is that we're layering that on top of family physicians who are already quite overburdened in their practice. That's where it can get very challenging in the system, because we're trying to leverage the same people in multiple directions at the same time, and it's hard to keep adding to that.
We really need to be thinking about what that looks like. What is that process? How do we provide support and make that attractive for the physicians who are doing the assessments so that it's something they can fit into their workflow? Then, how do we make sure that it is appropriately funded? Also, the folks going through that assessment need t be funded so that it's something reasonable for them to be able to accomplish. Sometimes they're having to do that with no financial support, and that's a big barrier.
Absolutely, the finances are one piece, but I think, as you're hearing broadly as a theme today, for all of these issues we're talking about, the dollars are not the only issue in any of these problems. There are really significant structural issues. There are significant capacity issues. If we don't think about those two things in parallel, I don't think we're going to solve the issue. More money for something that's not working isn't going to suddenly make it work.
We need, I think, to understand what's working and what's not. How do we scale the things that are working? What substantial system changes need to be made, and then how do we support those new ways of moving forward so that it becomes sustainable?