Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to ask a question. I know there is probably not much time given the hockey references across the way.
The hon. member for Macleod is a physician. He is basically saying he is not sure about Bill 11, but let us try it and give it a chance. His arguments are that in one of these new surgical facilities it might be $500 a day versus the $1,500 that it would cost to run the health care system in a major hospital. Let me ask the doctor a hypothetical question. What happens at one of these facilities when there is a complication in the surgery?
The member for Macleod mentioned tonsillectomies. We have all heard horror stories about tonsillectomies. It is normally a minor procedure, but there can be serious problems from time to time. What happens at that point? Presumably the difference of $1,000 a day between the surgical facility and the major hospital is that the surgical facility does not have all the bells and whistles that the major hospital has. That sick person now needs intensive care and has to be rushed to the major hospital. What happens at that point? Do we have queue jumping? Is the person in the other system who has been slated for that bed available at the Edmonton hospital all of a sudden bypassed because somebody coming out of the private facility is in intensive care and needs help in a hurry?
That is the problem a lot of people have with this notion. I would appreciate the hon. member's response to that.