Supplemental Health Insurance Plans
Financial protection against out-of-pocket medical expenses can be important to anyone who relies solely on their provincial health insurance plan. Supplemental health insurance protects against the day-to-day costs that really add up – and even more reassuring, it can swoop in to save the day when sudden illness or injury occurs.
Medicare, Canada’s publicly-funded health care program, merely covers residents for fundamental medical services. Though the system is ever-changing its benefit policies, you’re probably still not receiving coverage for key health care services like:
- Prescription drugs
- Routine and enhanced dental procedures
- Prescription eyewear
- Registered specialists and therapists
Boosting your benefit level
With a supplemental health insurance plan, you can extend your personal protection against health-related expenses… well beyond the government’s provision. Extended health insurance plans are available for purchase through a number of health benefits providers.
You are the perfect candidate for supplemental health insurance coverage if:
- You have no group health benefits at work, or
- You will lose your group employee health coverage at retirement, or
- You are self-employed, working on contract or freelance.
SureHealth ZONE and LINK supplemental health insurance plans offer protection against a wide variety of medical expenses which will keep you and your wallet happy in the long run, including:
- Dental care
- Prescription drugs
- Vision care
- Registered specialists and therapists
- Emergency medical travel coverage
- Semi-private or private hospital room stays