Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, as I outlined in my Member's statement, our seniors that choose to retain their private health care coverage upon retiring from the public service are having to go through an extremely complicated process to seek reimbursement for their prescriptions. They first have to make applications to Sun Life which includes filling out forms, taking photocopies for themselves in case their forms get lost in the mail or whatever, of all their original prescriptions. They then wait several weeks for reimbursement from Sun Life. Then they have to fill out another set of forms for the Department of Health to get another copy of their prescriptions because Inuvik will only accept the original prescription, and calculate the 20 percent of the GNWT portion including the Sun Life reimbursement exemption and then send the whole package off to Inuvik. Would the Minister please state exactly why these seniors have to wait until they receive reimbursement from Sun Life before they can make application for their reimbursement from the GNWT? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Paul Delorey on Question 46-14(6): Complicated Prescription Drug Reimbursement Process
In the Legislative Assembly on February 19th, 2003. See this statement in context.
Question 46-14(6): Complicated Prescription Drug Reimbursement Process
Item 6: Oral Questions
February 18th, 2003
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