Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the Member is continuing on his view of this. The situation is, as a government, if we had more money to put into our extended health benefits policy, would this be one of the priorities, and that has to come under the equation. We'd have to look at a whole number of procedures that are not included now that people would have to pay on their own or go to other jurisdictions that we can't provide. As I stated before, there are procedures, surgeries done on patients. Once they've gone home, they have to pay and pick up the tab on a number of other things. So this is not a rare or unique situation. Unfortunately, there are situations where issues aren't dealt with through our existing system. In all of our programs, as we're reviewing, we have to look at the ability of patients to be able to pay some part of their own care. Thank you.
Floyd Roland on Question 40-15(6): Health Benefits For Congenital Club Foot
In the Legislative Assembly on May 9th, 2007. See this statement in context.
Further Return To Question 40-15(6): Health Benefits For Congenital Club Foot
Question 40-15(6): Health Benefits For Congenital Club Foot
Item 7: Oral Questions
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