Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  You're correct.

Health committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair, but could I add something?

Health committee  There is something interesting in the report that is exactly about what you are mentioning. I think the question was raised about how the members here and all in the public service are covered by the private insurance of the public service, which is at $654 million. It's exactly—

Health committee  You said that.

Health committee  It's already the case now. There is an alliance that brings together all the provinces in negotiations in order to establish a national price. We could go even further.

Health committee  Absolutely.

Health committee  Thank you for the question. I will give Ms. Malanik a minute to prepare her answer to your question. While we are waiting, I can state that the authors of the Morgan study, which was done in 2015, used a different formulary. The analysis is therefore not the same. They also use

Health committee  Thank you for the question. That would mean not aggregating all the provinces as we have done. You are asking if the RAMQ model could be used everywhere. I would say that it all comes down essentially to one's capacity to negotiate. Someone gave the example of U.S. veterans. If

Health committee  No. We had a meeting following the motion, when we discussed the motion with the chair, and it was decided that we would do exactly what the motion said about the RAMQ, and it was the beginning of our study. We told the chair that we may have a follow-up to do eventually on this

Health committee  At the beginning...?

Health committee  Not that I remember during the meeting.... When we had the meeting just to discuss what we would do and so on, we gave the chair the procedure that we have for all our reports: when we deal with a committee or an individual, we will present the methodology, what will be the appro

Health committee  Yes. Thank you for the question. After the first motion from this committee, we came back and asked for some specific measures or models that we could use. After the second meeting, the model of Quebec was used, because it's very comprehensive. As we mentioned, it covers about 8

Health committee  I would just say that it's a balanced approach, not only prudent, but balanced in terms of what we saw in the literature and so on.

Health committee  We're prudent.