Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My questions today are for the Minister of Health and Social Services with respect to medical travel. Now yesterday I had the opportunity to stand up and give accolades to the Minister of Education for noticing a glitch in a program. I am wondering if the Minister of Health and Social Services would consider the supplemental health benefits when it comes to medical travel and tell me why it is that a patient travelling out would be required to pay the travel co-payment, meals, accommodation and transportation to and from the medical services when they get there, but if you were a medical escort or just an escort that there would be no travel co-payment and you would get reimbursed for taxis, meals and nightly accommodation in a commercial facility. Does that not seem a little unusual to the Minister? Thank you.
Jane Groenewegen on Question 403-14(5): Medical Travel Co-payment Inequity
In the Legislative Assembly on October 24th, 2002. See this statement in context.
Question 403-14(5): Medical Travel Co-payment Inequity
Item 7: Oral Questions
October 23rd, 2002
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