That is, in a nutshell, the challenge. Care for the sick is the priority. We assess budget envelopes, we know that there are sick people, but we do not know how many. There may be more than we think and yet again even more in one, two, three or four years. So if we start to mortgage the future by cutting the budgets now, that will not resolve the problem, it will aggravate it in the long run. In my opinion, our priority should be to try to identify the magnitude of the problem and to do a more detailed analysis to find out where these resources are, even if we do find ourselves in a time of fiscal restraint. Some sectors deserve more money than others. As I said to you earlier, we are adopting one-size-fits-all approaches where everyone is treated the same way. However, things do not work that way. There are some sectors that are solicited much more heavily than others, and yet they have the same resources as the others. So if there is a problem, it will not disappear, it will get worse. So if we are serious about this, we have to direct the resources to the right place. I do understand that there are cutbacks, but we must not make cutbacks that hurt the ill.
On November 30th, 2010. See this statement in context.