Mr. Speaker, I have two questions for the hon. member.
In the litany of individual provincial problems with health care delivery the member made it sound like this is only about money.
I would ask the member to comment on the Ontario Hospital Association's presentation to the finance committee. The association said that this is not about money. This is about mismanagement. It is about not having income-outcome measures and setting best practices and those kinds of things.
How can the member prove that this is just about money? How can he blame the federal government for what some people feel is a mismanagement problem in terms of the delivery system?
I am astounded that as a physician, a profession which is criticized for over-medicalizing our health care, the member could actually think that we could fund a sort of fix it part of the system instead of a holistic model that the patients know works. A health transfer does not deal with the social determinants of health, poverty, violence, the environment and all those things.
The only way to a sustainable health care system is to keep people well and not let them get sick. It is only the doctors that seem to have trouble getting the picture.