Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Travel outside of the Northwest Territories within Canada and outside of Canada is certainly different. The NWT Health Care Plan does cover residents for medically necessary hospital and medical expenses when residents are travelling outside the Northwest Territories and we have reciprocal billing agreements with the different provinces, which actually articulate or dictate what those costs that we’re covering are. We do have an agreement with most of the provinces and
territories to direct bill the Department of Health and Social Services for doctor visits and hospital care for medically required services.
Sometimes there are situations where individuals are asked to pay for medically necessary services in provinces upfront. They can submit invoices to us and we’ll reimburse them for those medically necessary services.
What we don’t cover and what is not covered by any jurisdiction are costs such as for medevacs or air ambulances that occur. So if you’re travelling and you’re injured on a highway, as the Member articulated earlier, the cost of the ambulance wouldn’t be covered by the GNWT. Thank you.