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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.

How Health Insurance Can Help You Stay Healthy This Winter

Participating in outdoor activities in the winter can really lift your spirits and improve your health. All that exercise releases endorphins to make you feel happy. And if it’s sunny you gain [+]

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Health Insurance Can Help Make Sure You Get The Physiotherapy You Need

Physical therapists assess and treat musculoskeletal impairments and are helping more people than ever live a better, pain-free life. You don’t need a doctor’s referral to get treatment. And you do not [+]

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Let Manulife’s Association Plan Work Hard For Your Small Business

Owning a small business can be a balancing act. On one side, there’s that glorious freedom to do what you love. But on the other, getting downtime is not easy. What would [+]

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Retirement Finances Have You Worried? Health Insurance Helps Deliver Confidence

A survey by Ipsos for Ryerson University’s National Institute on Ageing asked Canadians their thoughts on the problem of facing longer and more expensive retirements. Three-quarters (75 per cent) nearing or in [+]

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2022 Health Insurance Tips For Taking Better Care Of Your Health

Your health and wellbeing are part of a larger combination of factors that includes prevention, exercise, nutrition, and mental health. Many of us are getting more receptive to emerging services, such as [+]

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Why Employee Health Insurance Is A Critical Success Driver For Small Business

Critical Success Factors (CSF) refers to the most important elements or factors that contribute to the highest result, impact, or outcome, in achieving a business goal and objectives. They must encompass all [+]

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Do You Find Completing Travel Insurance Forms A Challenge? Avoid These 3 Mistakes!

No matter what the season, you can be forgiven for spending your time searching for last minute travel deals, eagerly hoping to get out of town for a week or two. If [+]

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Get Your Travel Insurance To The US Because You Select To Travel

Relief and excitement are just two of the emotions felt by so many Canadians ready to travel to the U.S.  Whether you are vaccinated or not, the decision to travel across the [+]

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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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