Mr. Speaker, we have to understand that when it comes to costs in health care, the money comes out of the jeans of the working men and women. Whether we pay for it through a pharmacare program or through different insurance programs, we must be careful not to just mask the real cost of the system.
A pharmacare program is something that has been talked about a lot but I am not convinced that it is the way to go to reduce the cost to the actual working people walking the streets and paying the bill. As passionate as we like to be when it comes to dealing with seniors' expenses for pharmaceuticals, which will just increase, I am not convinced that a pharmacare program is necessarily the way to go.
Maybe we need to examine and debate pharmacare but I believe we must do what is most efficient in order to deliver health care. We should put our energies into focusing on the misuse of drugs and on getting the best drugs instead of wondering how we will actually pay for those drugs, because we are competing with many different interests.