Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don't have that level of detail. I do know that I have had a few come through my desk that -- you know, from MLAs with their constituents that are in this category. And I know that as soon as they have the documentation, as the Minister of ECE has explained, that our office is able to renew those early enough. But what I will say is is that as soon as somebody is applying and they have their documentation is to contact health services immediately. And they have a pretty quick turnaround for renewing their health care. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am going to give that to the ADM to try and explain how that works, and see if that helps. Thanks.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, as this program is the payer of last resort and some people who previously may have had other insurances because -- and due to the specific disease, you know, they may have had one of the specific diseases or a dependent that had one of the specific diseases on that file that would have made them eligible, that person eligible for this program, and so therefore due to the way that it's calculated based on -- I think it's net? Net income and the 30 bands, then they -- you know, they chose -- maybe they -- then that's the thing is that -- and for those that --...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We don't have that level of detail here.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, that is the cost share agreements with the First Nations/Inuit home and community care sunset funding because we were in the same situation, like, with the other agreements. We have a couple agreements that happened partway through this year. So that's not reflected in here so that's why it shows up as a decrease. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. If it's -- relates to medical travel, the medical travel review is actually being led by, I think, the department and working with the medical travel team within NTHSSA, I believe. So that is where the bulk of that is happening. It's not necessarily the PA. The PA is more of an overall -- works with the executive and to fulfill the mandate that's been given to him by myself, Minister. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

For that level of detail, I'll go to the ADM if it's okay.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, what we have seen is we've had -- what I do have is December 20th, we have 794 individuals that are registered for this benefit. And to the statistics on this is we've seen some member -- like some people who were previously on the program within it that they've chosen not to continue with it as the deductible might be more than what they were actually spending. And so, say for instance, somebody who had a $600 deductible, maybe it was equivalent that their medications only added up to that so there was no need for them to pay the deductible to just get the...

Yes.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair, you know, this -- you know, I think the thing is that we're getting way, way down into the details of how people are admitted. And physicians, you know, when they have somebody coming into the hospital being in admission, they will manage them according to their plan of care to their -- whatever their issue or condition is. Where alcohol management is more where we support is at the community level through -- like, only one of our programs. But I know that taking that into account that, you know, we are looking at other ways that we ensure that through our...