Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not going to take too long on this, but I want to reference a few points I made earlier about a letter I received from Finance Minister Roland on the delivery of essential programs and services in the most effective, efficient and economical way. In another one, he speaks to resource revenues and also to protecting low-income residents. With that in mind, especially in the health services program, Mr. Chairman, I've read with intense interest from the Fraser Forum a new health reform policy in Slovakia reminds Canada of a lesson it has yet to learn, and it speaks to a number of interesting initiatives that small Slovakian country had taken in terms of reforming its health care. I see a number of interesting sectors that we could take as excerpts from this article that the department may want to look at in the longer term to see if that would fit some of our own recommended reforms here in the Northwest Territories. I certainly believe that it also has some very interesting methodologies it could employ here. In the context of what the Minister said earlier about the vulnerability of our health care system, should we not be looking at something that would be more of a cost-sharing program for health care? I'm going to ask the Minister if he would look at some of the transitions that this European country had made in terms of addressing its health care program. Thank you.
Roger Allen on Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 23rd, 2004. See this statement in context.
Revert To Item 20: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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