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To make informed decisions about health and dental insurance, you need to start by getting the facts. Reading our collection of articles about health and dental insurance in Canada will help you save time and money as you discover more about how insurance works, and how the choices you make now will affect you in the future.

Four Reasons Why Women Need and Buy Health and Dental Insurance

As a woman, leading a full and healthy life involves emotional, social, cultural, spiritual, and physical well-being. While Canadians are among the healthiest people in the world and the life expectancy of [+]

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Orthodontics – How To Use Your Plan for Amazing Results

Do you smile when someone takes your picture? Do you give a close-lipped, tight smile in hopes that no one will guess your smile isn’t quite as perfect as you’d like it [+]

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Suddenly Becoming A Common-Law Couple? Great! It Makes Common-Sense To Get Health Insurance

Since Statistics Canada first began tracking common law couples 40 years ago, there’s been enormous growth in the number of couples that are living common law – multiplying over five times in [+]

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Are Your Prepared If Your Travel Insurance Coverage Ends When You Turn 70?

Taking the time to travel to visit family out of province or out of country is always a priority for many Canadians. By the time we reach age 70, many of us [+]

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Health Insurance Tips To Prepare Your Kids For Back-To-School Success

Our children get sick more often than we do because their immune systems are not as developed. At back-to-school time, you may worry about things like your child’s academic performance but its [+]

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OMHRA and SBIS – How To Connect To Human Resources Guidance on Health Insurance Trends

For nearly sixty years, OMHRA has been the premier professional association representing human resources, labour relations, and senior management professionals within the local public sector in Ontario. Members are employed in municipalities, [+]

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How To Gain Your Small Business Competitive Advantage With Health Insurance

Putting health insurance benefits in place is a solid part of a small business’ long-term strategy to gain a valuable advantage in their marketplace. Small businesses that offer health insurance give themselves [+]

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Shopping Online For Health Insurance? Here Are Three Things You Should Know.

The Statista Global Consumer Survey conducted in Canada in 2022 found that 52 percent of respondents answered the question “Which of these statements about online shopping do you agree with?” with “When [+]

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Depending on Millennial and Gen-Z Workers? Grab a Health Insurance Strategy

To help form part of a plan for tomorrow, today’s young workers need a health insurance strategy to take care of their current and future healthcare needs. That’s vital to you as [+]

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Do You Dread Allergy Season? Health Insurance Can Help Come To The Rescue.

If you dread allergy season you are not alone – as many as 25% of Canadians suffer from seasonal allergies. For millions of Canadian allergy sufferers, it seems like it’s always allergy [+]

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Does Your Health Insurance Cover Medical Equipment?

Did you know that your government health coverage doesn’t usually cover the cost of medical support equipment you may need if you have an accident or illness? If you do qualify for [+]

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Is Health Insurance Actually Important For Me To Have?

People without health insurance usually seek less medical care and less timely care which can result in worse health outcomes. Why? Out of pocket expenses for healthcare can be too much of [+]

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Had your COVID-19 vaccination? Manulife Vitality rewards you for that!

There’s nothing worse than getting sick regardless of your age, gender or physical ability. That’s why health insurance helps us pay for healthcare we need for ourselves and our family to stay [+]

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What Mental Health Support Costs Does My Health Insurance Cover?

You and your family’s mental and behavioural health is so important. But all sorts of problems can and do happen, and result in a wide range of concerns like anxiety, depression, or [+]

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The Benefits of Using a Broker to Buy Health Insurance (It’s Free!)

The beautiful thing about having a best friend is that a ‘bestie’ always has your back when you need it – helping, supporting and protecting you. And, that friend’s care comes free [+]

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Why Your Small Business Plan Needs To Include Health Insurance

Business plans help you run your business. Having a good business plan is like having a guide working to help you start and manage things day to day, creating a structure for [+]

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Free Look Gives You 100% Confidence In Your Travel Insurance Plan

Imagine all the reasons your trip may go a little off course: you have elderly parents and will need to return home quickly to care for them your destination has an unexpected [+]

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What Are Your 6 Top Factors For Choosing Travel Medical Insurance?

In 2018, the Canadian Association of Financial Institutions (CAFII) surveyed over 1,200 travel medical insurance buyers, asking what factors affected their choice of travel medical insurance. Here are the findings. Factor #1: [+]

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If A Drug I Was Taking is Recalled, Am I Considered Stable For Travel Insurance?

1. Understand how your travel insurance policy defines ‘stable’ for health-related developments Here are typical ways that an insurer will define the stability of your condition: There are no symptoms or signs [+]

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Discover What Canadians Think About Travel Medical Insurance

What do we love about travel medical insurance? Eight in ten Canadians love the value this important insurance provides when they are travelling out of their home province. Among those who purchased [+]

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Your out of country visitors need travel health insurance

Now your friends and family may drop by more frequently thanks to more relaxed visa requirements and more direct flights to Canada. If they hadn’t had Canada on their bucket list before, [+]

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Travel Medical Insurance Is Helpful If You Get Traveller’s Tummy

You’re good at planning your vacations and business trips. But did you remember that planning what you’ll eat can be an important part of any trip away from home? Being on the [+]

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When is the Best Time to Purchase Travel Insurance?

Most people figure out where they’re going before they do anything else, and adjust the rest of their preparations around the time and place they’ll be away. Do you want to go [+]

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Do I Need Travel Insurance for a Destination Wedding?

Weddings create a huge market, and this is certainly true for destination weddings. Places like Cancun, Dominican Republic, and other tropical getaways are popular for this type of celebration. It’s a great [+]

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