Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'll be sharing my time with Dr. Lunney, if there is any time left over.
To quote part of your report:
While the expenditure for health care for other Canadians in 2006 was estimated at about $4,500, the expenditure per military member was estimated at more than $8,600 (in the 2005–06 fiscal year).
It was testified in a previous meeting, prior to your arrival, that physicians and hospitals charge our soldiers a higher rate than they would somebody at an OHIP rate. Is the difference that our soldiers are being charged more in a civilian hospital--and their health care overall--a consequence of what is necessary to treat a soldier, or is it that perhaps in civilian society the proper funding isn't there, so that soldiers are getting what it costs to properly treat them, where there is a shortage of doctors and spaces perhaps?