Dr. Sara Burke:

That is a difficult question to start with. The White Paper on Universal Health Insurance spectacularly avoided dealing with the basket of care. I gave the committee a conceptualisation of what we are working on as the basket of care in co-operation with our WHO and European colleagues. We went for the put everything in rather than keep some services out approach - put in social care, mental health services, drug charges, emergency departments - because we have to start by knowing the entire basket of care.

Then, it is political choices to decide who gets access to what. We could all argue that pretty much everything in there is essential health and social care. Therefore, having a broader basket rather than an narrower one is the way to go.