The issue of caregivers is important to me, as it is to Madam Minna and as I know it is to our chair today. Having had the experience of both my parents dying of cancer very close together, and dying at home because we have a large family—not rich, but well enough off that we could afford to have our parents die at home—it seems to me that one of the keys of the health care system going forward is to shift some kind of resource from institutionalized care to care for people in the home setting, whether they be elderly parents, children with special issues, autistic adults, or others.
On June 9th, 2009. See this statement in context.