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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.

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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How Can Health Insurance Help With Neck And Back Pain From Virtual Work?

If you are working from home, have you experienced an increase in neck and back pain? You are not alone. The 2020 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Survey shows [+]

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Why You Need Drug Coverage and How it Helps You

Prescription drug costs are not covered by government health plans for most Canadians. For instance, you will qualify for the Ontario Drug Benefit (ODB) program only when you turn 65 years old, [+]

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Pregnant And Starting A Family? Don’t Forget To Have Dental Insurance

Planning your family? There’s so many things to think about! But it’s important to prioritize oral health before, during and after pregnancy, even if you have neglected it in the past because [+]

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Why Is It Important To Offer Employee Health Insurance During Periods Of High Inflation?

Inflation has become a top economic concern for most Canadians after a significant and sudden increase in prices in the past months on everything, including basic necessities of food and housing. For [+]

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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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Retiring? Here Are 3 Health Insurance Mistakes To Avoid

According to an October 2022 survey by BDO Canada, 71% of Canadians found saving for retirement to be more challenging due to inflationary pressures. That poses the question: when its hard to [+]

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Sober Curious? Here Are Three Health Insurance Features That Help Make a Difference

Are you trying to break the habit of drinking without thinking or just drinking socially because everyone else does? You might just be joining the ‘sober curious’: people that are mindful of [+]

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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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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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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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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 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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Health Insurance Can Help Your Business Tackle And Control Presenteeism

Does your business feel the impact of an absent employee? When your team is small, it’s a real challenge to shift work responsibilities and plug holes in your production or service process [+]

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Graduating? Discover Three Ways To Get The Health Insurance You Need

You may not have been paying much attention while you were studying at school, but have you learned that public health insurance in Canada does not cover every health service and product [+]

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Rely On Health Insurance To Take Better Control Of Your Health And Wellness

Life can be, and has been, challenging – and we all have strengths and weaknesses when faced with a challenge. Today more than ever we understand that taking care of our physical [+]

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Retiree Dental Insurance Benefits are Disappearing

For the services that aren’t covered by your province or territory of residence, like dental care, private health and dental insurance plans can help offset the high cost of paying for services [+]

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The High Cost of Going Without Dental Insurance

When comparing the cost of dental insurance plans against the cost of paying for treatments out of pocket, it’s important to consider more than just a routine visit a couple of times [+]

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Dental Insurance Considerations for Retiring Canadians

Because Canadians are fortunate enough to have most of our healthcare needs provided for by the government, it’s easy to neglect to plan for some out of pocket expenses. For example, you will [+]

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Navigating Government Dental Insurance Programs

If you are one of the many Canadians who do not currently have separate coverage for your health and dental insurance needs, you will be required to pay out of pocket for [+]

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The Difference Between Preventative and Restorative Dental Insurance

When deciding on dental insurance for yourself or your family, it’s hard to know if you need premium coverage, or if a more basic plan will suit your needs. To help you [+]

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Accessibility Challenges in Dental Care

Accessibility Standards for People with Disabilities To get the most out of health and dental insurance, and enjoy the health benefits that stem from good oral health care, prospective dental patients need [+]

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Dental Insurance Matters at Any Age

Short Term Gain, Long Term Pain These days, many first jobs are temporary or contract positions. This means they don’t come with a lot of the perks of full-time employment, like group [+]

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The Importance of Dental Insurance for Children

When managing a household budget, there are a lot of items to consider. Leaving the health and dental insurance off the list may be tempting. However, it’s false economy when the need [+]

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Manulife’s COVID-19 Pandemic Travel Plan

Manulife and SBIS strongly encourage you to adhere to the recommendations of the Government of Canada and medical professionals around the world during this time. But Manulife supports the health and safety [+]

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What Free COVID-19 Travel Insurance Covers

Canadians travelling internationally should always follow government advisories. Travel insurers offer coverage that is aligned with the advisories, whether freedom to travel is restricted or not. As the world adapts and reopens [+]

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What You Need To Know About Student Travel Insurance

When you leave home and travel to school, your destination may be another province or territory — or another country. Or are you coming to Canada for your studies? Wherever your studies [+]

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Does Travel Insurance Cover Lost, Stolen or Damaged Baggage & Luggage?

Losing your suitcase, getting your baggage damaged or having your luggage stolen is a terrible experience (especially if it contains your passport!). Think about it. We are all worried about losing our [+]

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The Impact of COVID-19 On Your Travel Insurance

The COVID-19 pandemic brought travel to a standstill and the demand for travel insurance quickly stopped. But we know that once the outbreak is over and global travel resumes, travel insurance will [+]

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OHIP Out-of-Country Travellers Program Has Ended. Travel Insurance is Needed

Are you making plans to go to Mexico? Do you have that all-inclusive vacation booked to Cuba or the Dominican Republic? Or maybe this is the year for that long-planned trip to [+]

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Travel Advisory and my Travel Insurance: FAQ

Travel insurance protects you from unexpected out-of-pocket costs for eligible expenses when you are travelling outside of Canada – but you must pay attention to government travel advisories. The Government of Canada [+]

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The Magic of Multi-Trip Insurance

If you go on two or more adventures throughout the year, you may want to consider covering up to a full year’s worth of travel with one of our affordable multi-trip annual [+]

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Pediatric Dentistry Isn’t Child’s Play

With this high level of specialization comes the feeling that those practitioners who aren’t specialists are less qualified than those who are. When it comes to caring for your child’s teeth, is [+]

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Insurance is the Best Travel Deal in the World

The Case for Travel Insurance Many would-be vacationers take their chances that accidents or illnesses won’t happen abroad. Nobody thinks it will happen to them, and yet every year thousands of Canadians [+]

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Still Smoking? Let This Be the Year You Kick the Habit!

Whatever your reasons were on that fateful day, you’re continuing to do something that is hazardous to your health, and to the health of people around you. You know that. By now, [+]

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Yes, Flossing Really is THAT Important

Why Flossing is Important It’s easy to understand the value of dental floss when you are feeling the irritation of a piece of food stuck between your teeth. It’s true, flossing is [+]

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Travel Insurance for the Year

By now we have all heard stories of our fellow Canadians falling ill or getting injured while on a holiday far from home. What you might not have heard about is the [+]

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Visiting Canada? You Need Health Insurance Too!

Why Visitors to Canada Need Health Coverage Whether your planned visit to Canada is for a few weeks for a vacation, a few months for a temporary work assignment, or you’re planning [+]

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Maintaining Healthy Habits in Winter

Winter Health Habits There are a lot of things you can do to keep up healthy habits all year long. Here are a few of our favourites: Keep eating your fruits and [+]

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Options to Replace Lost or Damaged Teeth

Types of Replacement Teeth Dentures, crowns, bridges and onlays – all of these are options to replace lost teeth. But what exactly is the difference between them, and why would your dentist [+]

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