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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.

What Should I Know About New Canadian Dental Care Plan?

The Canada Dental Care Plan (CDCP) provides a landmark change to Canada’s covered health care services. It is important to understand if you do or will qualify for coverage under the government [+]

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Planning Your 2024 Travel? Here Are Some Tips and What You Should Know About Travel Insurance

Think of all the time you’ve spent saving and planning for your travel adventures. You may be using a travel itinerary and road trip planner app like Wanderlog to build, organize, and [+]

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Struggling with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? Health Insurance Can Help

As the temperature begins to drop the sun seems to hide from the cold, just like the rest of us. As we resign ourselves to a few months of wintery weather, many [+]

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Growing Your Small Business In 2024? GMS Group Advantage Health Is Growing With You

According to the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), to start on the right foot in 2024 your small business should Focus on managing your human resources because labour markets will continue [+]

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Employee Bliesure Travel Is On The Rise. Do They Have Travel Insurance?

Sending employees on business travel may be critical for you company in order to participate in conferences to keep up on the latest trends, meet with clients to establish and maintain relationships [+]

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Are You Ready Manage Healthcare Costs In Your 8000 Days Of Retirement?

8000 days. If you have two decades of retirement ahead – say from age 65 to 85 – that’s about 8000 days. And that’s about the same time between the time you [+]

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Does My Travel Insurance Cover Me in a Country With a Travel Advisory?

It is vital to check for travel advisories for your specific destination before booking your trip and a few days before leaving by going to https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories. This is Canada’s official source of destination-specific travel information. What is [+]

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Reduce the Cost of Your Travel Medical Insurance by Claiming a Tax Credit!

Travel insurance is a necessary safeguard when you are out of province or out of the country, but it can be expensive. Costs for insurance increases based on the number of days [+]

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Canada’s Provincial Health Plans – Quick Links Highlight What’s Covered Where You Are

It’s important to remember that all costs when travelling to another province are usually reimbursed at your home province’s fee guide rates. Here is a handy list (October 2023) of what most [+]

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Need A Quick Guide On Health Insurance in Canada?

If you are wondering who is most likely to be living without insurance, consider this: a massive number of retiring baby boomers and contract workers generally do not have access to insurance [+]

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Contract, Gig Or Freelancer? Yes, You Can Get Health Insurance

Your employment may not fit into a neat job title when you choose to do independent work. You may be a true free agent who chooses to work for yourself (self-employed). Or [+]

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Why Do I Need Health Insurance? I’m Healthy!

If you’re young and healthy, you may find yourself asking “Why do I need health insurance? It’s your health, and it’s your money. A supplemental health insurance plan is an excellent way [+]

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Asking Your Family And Friends About Health Insurance? Ask An Expert For Free Instead

We often ask those closest to us when we are experiencing a health problem and need advice. Why? Because we trust them. They may help with tasks – picking up medication or [+]

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How Your Health Insurance Helps With Menopause

By 2025 about 5 million women in Canada will be facing the challenge of menopause according to the Menopause Foundation of Canada. Unfortunately, over half of Canadians feel that menopause is a [+]

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Does Your Health Insurance Reward You For Healthy Behaviour?

Manulife knows that more and more Canadians want to focus on preventative health measures to live longer, healthier, better lives.  In their recent survey they also learned that two in three wantto [+]

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PRISM’s Personalized Counselling Matching Tool Is Better Than A Dating App

Swipe left or right… that may be a way to find a date, but it can be harder to find the right therapist. Searching for answers online as you struggle with emotions [+]

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Dental Insurance Can Keep You Smiling in Retirement

Results from the Statistics Canada’s Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) shows that more seniors are keeping their natural (and restored) teeth longer than in the past. However, the instances of root decay [+]

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How Do My Dental Insurance Maximums Work?

Luckily, there are ways to get treatment and save money – that’s why we have insurance! Since the mid-1950s, dental insurance has been a crucial means of saving people money when they [+]

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Do You Need Dental Surgery? Here’s How Your Dental Insurance Can Help

While the nature of the injuries these days is much different than 200 years ago, the need for oral surgery hasn’t diminished. Many students of dentistry opt to become oral surgeons as [+]

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Dental Checkups – Why and When You Should Go

It’s funny how we use our mouths to chew, swallow, speak, breathe, kiss, and much more, and yet they’re the last things on our minds when we consider our health. Your teeth [+]

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Why You Need the Perfect Insurance Plan for Your Children

Our caring and nurturing doesn’t stop at feeding and clothing, it extends to the well-being of our children in all ways. That includes making sure they have an education, a clean environment, [+]

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Get Dental Insurance Before You Need Dental Surgery!

Thankfully, we now live in a society where tooth extractions are the absolute last resort, and dentists will do everything in their power to save your teeth. Sometimes the measures they take [+]

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How to Avoid Expensive Dental Costs

Now think about how you could pay that dental bill without dental insurance. Would you be able to afford it? When faced with this question, most people opt to skip the dental [+]

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Dental Insurance Dictionary

Basic dental services An umbrella term for dental services that generally include exams, x-rays, polishing, scaling, root planing, endodontic services and tooth removal. Bitewing x-rays A type of x-ray that you bite [+]

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Top 5 Travel Emergency Medical Insurance Claims (And Why You Need Travel Insurance)

You think it won’t happen to you or your travel companions – but emergency medical situations do happen when you travel.  Here are the top five types of claims travellers make according [+]

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The Real-Life Travel Insurance Visitors To Canada Claim Story You Need To Know

No traveller ever sets out to get sick or run into a medical emergency while visiting Canada. But the unexpected can happen at any time or any place. That’s why it’s important [+]

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Booking Your Train Travel? Don’t Forget Travel Insurance

Train travel offers Canadians a comfortable, affordable, and environmentally friendly way to see the country, and its more popular than ever. If you are planning to travel between provinces by rail, securing [+]

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Interested In Immigrants and Visitors To Canada Travel Insurance? Check Out GMS

GMS is an SBIS insurance provider that is more than happy to provide immigrants and visitors to Canada, and those looking for Super Visa insurance, with emergency medical coverage. Ready to test [+]

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Is There Any Reason Why You Still Need Covid-19 Travel Insurance Protection?

Now that the World Health Organization has declared the COVID-19 pandemic at a point where we know the virus will remain the foreseeable future, but the infection is not as interrelated to [+]

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Want To Save 50% Off Of Your Single-Trip Emergency Medical Rates? Choose To Travel Canada!

The best way to make sure you come home with nothing but good memories from your travels is to have travel insurance to cover your healthcare expenses if you’re sick or injured [+]

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Shopping Online For Travel Insurance? Here Are Three Things You Should Know To Get The Best Rate

Getting travel insurance rate can be a click away, but is it the best rate? Travel insurance works like other kinds of insurance. You pay a premium rate for the benefits that [+]

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Travel Is Still A Priority In 2023 And So Is Travel Insurance

After spending too much time at home, you probably are feeling like you need to travel! If you are worried you may have to scale back your travel plans, it just means [+]

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Massage Therapy: Why Something So Fantastic Has to Be Reasonable and Customary

The after-effects are wondrous, giving you relief from the stresses of life. To some, massage therapy is a real luxury to be paid out of pocket, while others are fortunate to have [+]

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10 Things Your Dentist Wants You to Know

That’s a shame because a good dental self-care routine is critical to proper oral healthcare. Though the frequency of your visits may vary based on your needs and your health and dental [+]

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5 Ways to Avoid a Problem with Your Travel Insurance Claim

Some travel insurance policies, thankfully, go without claims because the trip was uneventful. However, if you do find yourself sitting in an emergency room far away from home, you’ll never be mad [+]

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Younger Workers Need 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. Health Insurance Challenges Facing Millennials [+]

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Travel Insurance in Times of Global Uncertainty

When planning a trip for work, pleasure or personal reasons, it’s important to know what’s happening in the world around you. This year, many Canadians are changing their travel plans due to [+]

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What Do Dentists Think About Halloween?

One group of healthcare professionals in particular has some ideas on the subject of the annual festival of Trick or Treating adventures. What do dentists think of Halloween? Dental Care Tips from [+]

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Insurance Issues in the Medical Marijuana Debate in Canada

On April 20, 2017, the Canadian Federal Government announced that recreational use of marijuana (also known as cannabis) will be legal in Canada by Canada Day 2018. For many Canadians, this settles [+]

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Dental Care at Every Age

To help you understand what to do to get the most out of your health and dental insurance with proper follow-up care, we’ve prepared the following guide for dental care at every [+]

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