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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.

Can Health Insurance Empower You To Deal With the Problems of Aging?

Aging can scare a lot of us. Your body gets weaker your mind may become less stable.  No one wants to lose their independence. That’s why it so important to proactively take [+]

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What travel insurance is best to get? Trip protection, medical travel insurance — or both?

More than two-thirds of Canadians intend to travel between May and October, according to the Conference Board of Canada. But as COVID-19 continues to loom, many travellers are once again concerned about [+]

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Summer is Accident Season So Don’t Get Caught Without Health Insurance

Some incidents are common in the summer months that put you and your family at a higher risk of injury and illness. If you need medical help, your provincial health insurance plan [+]

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Three Tips On How To Leverage Your Employee Health Insurance Plan’s Effectiveness

Health insurance helps you to have healthy, punctual, and present employees. While health management is your employee’s personal responsibility, here are some insights on how you can address obvious health hurdles by [+]

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Stressed? Sleepless? Discover Manulife’s Free HealthyMind With Vitality Health Insurance

Meditation may not be the first choice for everyone, but today’s stressors make it the right time to learn how it can help as part of a daily wellness routine. Experienced meditators [+]

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How To Avoid Wasting Your Travel Dollars: Buy Trip Cancellation Insurance

An Ontario couple who didn’t buy travel insurance ahead of their vacation were disappointed to learn they were denied a refund after contracting COVID-19. You can read their story Do I need [+]

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Travelling For Self-Care? Travel Insurance Takes Care Of You Too

According to Bookings.com travel predictions for 2022, travel is going to become essential to our self-care. Is it surprising? During the pandemic, people were forced to make the most of what they [+]

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How To Get Health Insurance Without Medical Questions For You and Your Loved Ones

Let’s start talking first about life insurance instead of health insurance. You’ve heard about no medical life insurance. It’s a life insurance option that needs to exist. If you don’t have a [+]

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Why City of Toronto Retirees Should Have Health and Dental Insurance

The City of Toronto is Ontario’s municipal capital, formed in 1834. If you take a walk around downtown’s University of Toronto campus or the St. Lawrence Neighborhood, you can appreciate just how [+]

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What Three Things Are Guaranteed With Health Insurance?

If you are like most people, receiving a guarantee with the services and products you choose helps you to be a little less skeptical that they’ll do the job you need them [+]

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Which Health and Dental Insurance Plan is Right for Your Employees?

When you’re tasked with anything that affects an entire company of people, it can seem daunting. Making decisions on health insurance benefits can take time and energy – those limited and very [+]

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On The Move To Work Remotely? Pack Some Health Insurance

Sometimes we become all too aware of how impossible it is to switch off technology and life can feel unbalanced. The reverse of this ‘connected’ life experience is that technology at the [+]

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What Is The Most Valuable Component of Your Health Insurance?

It’s hard to think about health insurance without talking about COVID-19.  Sometimes it seems hard to think about anything without considering the effects of the pandemic game-changer.  It has sped up changes [+]

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How To Transform Employee Health Benefits

Costs remain a big concern in employee benefit plan design. Is your our organization torn between offering an innovative health benefit plan and affordability? It is a struggle to offer a generous [+]

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Which Prescription Drugs are Covered by Health Insurance Plans?

When it comes to threats to our health, many diseases are communicable, while others can be spontaneous, environmental, or genetic. Some ailments can be cured with rest and minimal intervention, but others [+]

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Manulife Makes Virtual Medical Consultations Free and Easy with Akira

Consumer confidence and the use of virtual healthcare is skyrocketing, and many Canadians are coming to prefer virtual services whenever possible. Virtual care has moved from progressive to mainstream because of the [+]

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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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