Mr. Speaker, to be clear, what is driving this change to our policy on supplementary health benefits? From what I understand is the projected costs going forward and the sustainability of those costs and also the people who are not currently receiving coverage, there’s a group, there’s a gap, there’s a group that are left out. If it is the cost that is driving this review, I think that the issue of cost, which Ms. Lee has indicated, is not something easy to quantify. It is difficult to have a fulsome debate on this when we don’t know what those costs would be. Because those are the kinds of decisions that government and policymakers can make, that they say it’s going to cost us this much, even on a projected basis. Well, we choose and we say that is a good expenditure of public funds and we want to do that. So, I mean, are there any costs that are part of this equation in this consideration? Thank you.
Jane Groenewegen on Question 89-16(5): Proposed Changes To Supplementary Health Benefits Program
In the Legislative Assembly on March 25th, 2010. See this statement in context.
Question 89-16(5): Proposed Changes To Supplementary Health Benefits Program
Oral Questions
March 24th, 2010
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