Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Health and Social Services. I want to follow up a bit on my statement today and from yesterday as well.
You know, it’s said, Mr. Speaker, that a society is judged by its treatment of children, the sick and the elderly. I think we in the NWT want to be judged well. We want to feel that our society is a good one and I think we put programs in place to look after our children, our sick and our elderly. So it leads to the idea of a safety net, which the Minister has referred to quite a number of times in our discussion over the last few days and months.
So my question to the Minister is, as I mentioned in my statement, there are those residents who, under the proposed plan, will end up with excessive medical costs in any one-month period because they have third-party insurance and don’t have any access to supplementary health benefit. So I’d like to ask the Minister where is the safety net for those residents who have third-party insurance and have to endure excessive medical costs. Thank you.