Finance committee  Clearly for patient care.

Finance committee  Yes, if they were operating as sole physicians.

Finance committee  Correct.

Finance committee  That's right; they share it.

Finance committee  Right, so these groups are, as I said earlier, on the small end, the short end, 10, and up on the high end, 100. Many groups are in the 20 to 30 or 35 range.

Finance committee  We may be guilty of being naive or being too nice. Tax law is not what physicians do.

Finance committee  I think a comment would be that physicians, when those comments were made during the election, to a large extent didn't believe that they applied to doctors because it's not normally part of the orbit. When we became aware that this might, and then it did, involve physicians, the

Finance committee  Last year—and for many years—the tax ruling or the interpretation by CRA was that this was a permissible model. Physicians across the country have received these tax rulings and they have formed groups, not just of radiologists but of surgeons, of family physicians, of the altern

Finance committee  I think the other thing to appreciate is that when we talk about groups, certainly in radiology, groups on average range from 10 radiologists to 100. Obviously, the 100 are in large urban tertiary centres, but these are major collections of individuals with a very broad range of

Finance committee  We did meet senior finance department officials who were actually responsible for crafting the legislation. Their concern was about tax policy and not about other consequences—namely, of course, in our area, health policy—or about how the rubber hit the road in terms of how this

Finance committee  Sorry. I had the French.

Finance committee  We have some recommendations in terms of that same goal. First, we're seeking that the legislation be amended to carve out publicly funded health care delivered by medical practitioners who deliver their services in professional medicine corporations, which are a readily identifi