The Member knows and everybody here knows projecting to the last dollar what our health care expenditures are going to be, whether how much it will cost to run Stanton tomorrow or Extended Health Benefits Program, what’s it going to be at Hay River, whatever, that is, I mean, there are lots of formulas to do that, but at the end of the day, it’s a projection.
Mr. Speaker, sustainability of health care programs is a national issue. It’s an issue for every government. We know that on the whole that we will continue to see increases and we budget accordingly. So sustainability is an issue that we need to consider, but the thrust of this policy is not to reduce costs or to decrease costs, but it is to see how do we fix this program so that it works better. Because we know that it’s not working as well as it should. The program criteria that it has is not backed up by evidence, because we know that people of all ages have all different incomes and ability to pay and different medical needs. We are, right now, under the existing policy, excluding a whole bunch of groups of people, and we are trying to find a way to see if we can bring them on, and to ask those who can afford to pay something, to contribute to their health care costs. Thank you.