{"id":360,"date":"2025-08-06T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/?page_id=360"},"modified":"2025-10-06T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:39:06","slug":"health-care-insurance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/health-care-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rawpixel-550991-unsplash1500x1000-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rawpixel-550991-unsplash1500x1000-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rawpixel-550991-unsplash1500x1000-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rawpixel-550991-unsplash1500x1000-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/rawpixel-550991-unsplash1500x1000.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Health Care Insurance is delivered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manulife.ca\/personal\/group-plans\/group-benefits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Manulife<\/a>.<\/strong><br><br><strong>IF<\/strong> you receive a pension from the <strong>IATA <\/strong>Defined Benefits plan AND opted to REMAIN IN the IATA Health Care Insurance program, please read the following:<br><br><strong>IATA <\/strong>provides Health Care Insurance through Manulife for retirees who have opted to remain in the medical benefits plan on retirement. The premium is paid 50% by IATA and 50% by the retiree.&nbsp; There is a taxable benefit to retirees in the arrangement (see below \u201cTax deduction\u201d).<br><br>Health Care Insurance consists of two \u201cparts\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) coverage of drug costs not covered by <strong>RAMQ <\/strong>(for residents of Quebec).&nbsp; All retirees are issued with a pay-direct card to facilitate the purchase of your prescription drugs at your local pharmacy;.<br><br>2) medical costs for a wide variety of services.&nbsp; Claim forms can be completed and submitted online from within your Manulife account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Care Insurance is delivered by Manulife. IF you receive a pension from the IATA Defined Benefits plan AND opted to REMAIN IN the IATA Health Care Insurance program, please read the following: IATA provides Health Care Insurance through Manulife for retirees who have opted to remain in the medical benefits plan on retirement. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/health-care-insurance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health Care Insurance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-360","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/360\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.iaircanada.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}