Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, the department, at the same time that they're doing this, they're also working on the product listing agreements, so those are medications and things like that that they're getting lower costs for medications, and so that is one of the reasons why we've been able to keep the costs down and in within extended health benefits on the prescription side. And just to also add note to the -- there are members and people that may not have needed supplies or -- so when, say, somebody that would traditionally use the extended health benefits and they were for supplies and things like that and maybe it was a big ticket item due to, you know, one of the things and they may not need that, so they may not want to pay the deductible until they actually need that. So that's what this program is. It's kind of like how -- you know, when you think of how some of our other Sun Life and you put in for your glasses and your glasses cost $300, but they keep the deductible, and so sometimes it wasn't -- in some of the instances that I've been told is that it was -- they just chose not to do that. Thank you.
Lesa Semmler on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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