Members of Supplementary Health Working Group Announced

R(16)441 – Thursday, May 20, 2010

The members of the Supplementary Health Working Group have been announced by Minister of Health and Social Services Sandy Lee and the Chair of the Standing Committee on Priorities and Planning (SCOPP) Jane Groenewegen.The working group was announced earlier this week to collaboratively consider items raised by SCOPP concerning the planned changes to the Supplementary Health program, to ensure both a fair and equitable system available to all NWT residents currently without coverage and a smooth transition to the new program. The group will focus their work primarily on personal and employer responsibilities around uninsured health care and third party insurance, ensuring that a safety net is created for residents who accrue high health care costs, and defining catastrophic coverage. The group will report their work to Cabinet and SCOPP in June of this year, for a November 1st implementation.

The Members of the Executive Council on the Working Group are:
The Honourable Sandy Lee
The Honourable Michael McLeod
The Honourable Michael Miltenberger

And the Members of the Legislative Assembly on the Working Group are:
Mrs. Jane Groenewegen, Hay River South
Ms. Wendy Bisaro, Frame Lake
Mr. Norman Yakeleya, Sahtu

The group will be co-chaired by Mrs. Groenewegen and Minister Lee.

For more information, please contact:

Andrew Matthews
Communications Officer
Office of the Press Secretary to Premier and Cabinet
(867) 669-2302

Danielle O’Neill
Public Affairs and Communication Advisor
Legislative Assembly
(867) 669-2230