I am not sure what the travel agents do. In the Department of Health, under whom people naturally assume they are being cared for, because in the territories it is a little different than in the provinces, everyone receives a health care card and when you go to the hospital you show the card and that is it. Travel agents are in the business to make money and one may assume they are just trying to sell you extra insurance as they do for automobiles. I am wondering if the department, as a precaution, indicates in the medical literature, which goes out with the little card, that this is only valid within Canada, and that there is no agreement abroad, in order to protect the department. Does the department do anything?
Tony Whitford on Bill 17: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1993-94
In the Legislative Assembly on March 30th, 1993. See this statement in context.
Bill 17: Appropriation Act, No. 2, 1993-94
Item 18: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
March 29th, 1993
Page 1276
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