Amy feels that payment is a question of equity but should be approached sensibly

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But if we’re going to move forward – and again, you said that the topic of remuneration comes up – it’s also a question of equity. If everyone else around the table is drawing a salary except for me, I mean, do you value my time and my input, or not? If you do, then maybe you should pay me something, and maybe just give the choice – leave the choice up to the patient or the caregiver to decide whether or not they want to take that money.

Because some are more than happy to say, oh, this is my volunteer commitment, I’m giving this time back to the hospital, but there are other people that they’re giving up paid employment time and not everyone can give up – if they’re paid hourly, they can’t give up the time away from their paid job to be at the table. So there has to be some different way to look at remuneration. And then also, it opens up a can of worms when you look at people with disabilities and they might be on some form of government social benefits that get clawed back the minute you start giving them a certain amount of money that exceeds a certain amount. And does that mean that you give them cash instead? So there’s all these logistic issues

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