Mr. Speaker, I will give him time to respond. I thank him for giving me the opportunity to say that no, I do not support a United States style health care system. Neither does anyone else in the Reform Party.
Reform members have made it very clear that we support medicare plus which is a lot different. Sweden uses a similar system. I can also give an example from New Zealand of my 82-year old mother who needed a cataract operation. The waiting list in the public system was years. If you are 82 and you have to wait six years, then what? Since there is a choice down there she paid a couple of thousand dollars to have one of her eyes done. So many seniors did the same thing that the waiting list came down. When she went for her second operation she had it done within the public system and it only took two weeks. The waiting list vanished within a very short period of time.
We do not support a U.S. system. We support choice in addition to the present medicare, common sense.