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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.

If you have Diabetes you need Dental Insurance For Good Oral Health

Diabetes is a disease that doesn’t discriminate between age, gender or race, and effects about 1 in 10 Canadians. If you have pre-diabetes or diabetes, you need to take special precautions around [+]

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What Is The Cost Of (Not Having) Health Insurance For Your Small Business?

The pressure to offer higher wages due to labour shortages is felt by many entrepreneurs. According to the September 2021 Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC.ca) study, the pressure of labour shortages [+]

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Are You A Single Parent? Tips On Choosing And Using Health Insurance

If you are like 1.8M other Canadians¹, you know that being a single parent of one child or several children can be stressful, and that can take a toll on your health. [+]

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Offboarding Employees — Best Practices on Helping Them Obtain Health Insurance

Does your employee offboarding process to formally disengage an employee when they are terminated, resign, or retire include a health insurance transition option? Employee offboarding is an essential stage of the employee [+]

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Did You Know That The Health Insurance You Depend On May Retire When You Do?

When transitioning into retirement protect yourself against costly medical expenses.  Your prescription drugs, glasses and dental bills may not be covered by your government health insurance plan and these costs can quickly [+]

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The Top Three Health Insurance Features You Need For Your Active Lifestyle

Sometimes we lead an active lifestyle because our work demands it. Sometimes we choose that lifestyle because it: Makes us feel happier Getting active releases endorphins that produce positive feelings and reduce [+]

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Don’t Worry — Travel Insurance Can Cover You If Your Health Has Changed

A standard emergency medical travel insurance policy will include coverage for pre-existing medical conditions — provided you meet the insurer’s stability requirements. What does that mean? That means it is important to [+]

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Dental Checkups – Why You Should Go and How Dental Insurance Helps

When we think about our health, what do we usually think about right away? Our cardio-respiratory systems? Our allergies or our weight? We tend to forget about our teeth and gums. It’s [+]

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What You Need to Know About Diabetes and Health Insurance

According to the 2019 Diabetes Canada Cost Model, one in three Canadians has diabetes or pre-diabetes and the numbers continue to rise. Even so, fewer than half of us can identify even [+]

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How to Decide If Your Small Business Should Offer Health Benefits

Your provincial insurance plan may pay for medically necessary care, but it doesn’t cover numerous other services that can threaten your or your employees’ health, ultimately affecting your company’s bottom line. For [+]

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Three Things You Need To Know About Divorce And Your Health Insurance

When major life events like a pandemic test our emotional and mental well-being and our marriages, sometimes the result is the end of our relationships. Why? It may be that spending too [+]

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How to Offer Employee Assistance with a Small Group Health Plan

When you’re a small business owner, your time is valuable. To simplify the selection and reduce the cost of your group benefits package, at SBIS we offer GMS Group Advantage, a health [+]

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Health Insurance for Canadian Retirees

While employed full-time, many Canadians are in the fortunate position of having company-provided health and dental insurance to help offset the costs of these services that fall outside the provincial and territorial [+]

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No Employee Benefits? Now You Need Health Insurance

A nice perk for some people who work is that their employer provides benefits. But more and more Canadians don’t have that advantage. They are self-employed. Once you’re in business for yourself, [+]

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Is Health Insurance Important When I Retire?

Health insurance benefits are an important part of an employee’s compensation package. Did you know that when you retire, you will likely lose those benefits and the peace of mind they provide? [+]

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Do I have to be in good health to apply for health insurance?

Health insurance helps pay for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses not covered by our government health plan — and that’s vital to protecting your finances. But if you have a pre-existing health condition before [+]

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Do I Need Insurance When Travelling Within Canada?

Perhaps best of all, every Canadian resident is eligible for government healthcare, so you don’t need to worry about travel insurance, right? Not so fast, adventurous traveller! Virtually every provincial health ministry [+]

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Travel Insurance Destination Guide

It seems the only real limit is deciding where to go for a March Break vacation. Of course you know that the most important thing you can pack for your trip is [+]

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Travelling with a Pre-Existing Condition

Those with pre-existing conditions are often convinced that as long as their medical issue is under control when they leave the country, there is no reason to buy travel insurance. Nothing could [+]

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