public health care – Benefits Canada.com https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Expert panel: A look at retiree benefits and the current health-care system https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/expertpanel_/claude-marchessault/expert-panel-a-look-at-retiree-benefits-and-the-current-health-care-system/ Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:00:31 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=104175 Many employees may be dreaming of a carefree retirement following many years in the trenches — but they’ll likely have to keep dreaming if they don’t have first-rate, post-retirement health and dental insurance coverage. Many employers provide supplemental health insurance (drug, dental, extended health and out-of-country medical) as part of comprehensive packages of employee benefits, […]

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]]> 2021 Group Benefits Providers Report: Will the rising tide of virtual health-care offerings lift all boats? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/news/bencan/the-rising-tide-of-virtual-heath-care-offerings/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 12:55:52 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=98094 When Leona Guenette comes down with a bad case of bronchitis, she knows exactly what antibiotics she needs. Normally for Guenette, the pension and benefits administrator of the Sagkeeng First Nation, that meant scheduling an appointment with her local doctor to get a prescription. But as of June 2020, when Sagkeeng and 350 other First […]

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]]> What will a Biden presidency mean for the economy going forward? https://uat-cumulus.benefitscanada.com/events/conferences/what-will-a-biden-presidency-mean-for-the-economy-going-forward/ Mon, 30 Nov 2020 08:25:02 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/what-will-a-biden-presidency-mean-for-the-economy-going-forward/ The prospect of a Joe Biden presidency with a Republican-held senate is an ideal outcome for markets, said Charles Myers, founder and chairman of Signum Global Advisors, during the Canadian Investment Review’s Investment Innovation Conference in November. Speaking the morning after the election, Myers said Republicans’ expected continued control of the senate would have “very […]

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