“I want the health committee to investigate a program that spent a lot of money. Why won't the other party let us investigate?”
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Health
In the Health debate during Oral Questions, the Conservatives pressed the Liberals about a failed $300 million electronic prescription program called PrescribeIT, alleging a lack of transparency and accountability over the wasted funds. The Liberals accused the Conservatives of blocking a committee study on HIV/AIDS and disputed claims about PrescribeIT's budget and the disbursement of funds. The debate was largely partisan sparring, with both sides talking past each other and making accusations rather than discussing substantive health policy issues.
“I want to talk about something else. You're in the way. Maybe I'll talk about your thing later if you get out of the way now.”
“You wasted $300 million and now you're hiding from accountability. Work with us to investigate the failure of PrescribeIT.”
“I'm changing the subject to AIDS because it makes you look bad. I already appeared at Finance committee, so the Health committee doesn't need to study this. I've said enough and I don't want to answer any more questions about PrescribeIT.”
“You know PrescribeIT wasted $300 million. You know you had to fire the CEO. So why give the same group that can't point to one accomplishment in 10 years another $50 million this year? That makes no sense.”
“I might not have actually given the money yet. I'm deciding whether to spend the $50 million. But let me say we need health data infrastructure!”