{"id":15219,"date":"2023-12-11T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/ottawa-unveils-13b-dental-care-plan\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T17:59:22","slug":"ottawa-unveils-13b-dental-care-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/ottawa-unveils-13b-dental-care-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa unveils $13B dental care plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J9Qz8StqmxI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The federal government hopes to avoid gumming up the works of its new dental-insurance plan by gradually phasing in enrolment over the course of the next year, Health Minister Mark Holland said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors over the age of 87 will be the first cohort to be able to apply to join a new federal dental-insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>It will be slowly expanded over the course of 2024 to include all qualifying seniors, children under the age of 18 and people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Holland announced the rollout of the program, which is currently budgeted to cost $13 billion over the next five years, at a news conference at a dental clinic at Algonquin College in Ottawa. #shorts <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to CTV News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CTV News:<br \/>\nFor the latest news visit: <br \/>\nFor a full video offering visit the CTV News Network:<\/p>\n<p>CTV News on Facebook:  <br \/>\nCTV News on TikTok:<br \/>\nCTV News on Twitter:  <br \/>\nCTV News on Instagram: <br \/>\nCTV News on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nCTV News is Canada&#8217;s most-watched news organization both locally and nationally, and has a network of national, international, and local news operations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government hopes to avoid gumming up the works of its new dental-insurance plan by gradually phasing in enrolment over the course of the next year, Health Minister Mark Holland said Monday. Seniors over the age of 87 will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[78,16243,2754,1757,2755,16242,14115,440,79,602,16245,5119,76,2488,1022,48,16244,89,10279,75,4145,16246,152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}