Medical, rehab and attendant care coverage would still be mandatory, the budget says, but all other benefits would become optional.
The proposed changes also include making auto insurance pay for medical and rehabilitation benefits before drivers put those costs through their extended health-care plans. NDP Leader Marit Stiles suggested that the people who will choose to have less auto insurance coverage may have to do so for the wrong reasons.
"In my experience dealing with injured people in my practice, very few people actually buy the available optional insurance coverages that are available, even now," Tucker wrote in a statement. "The decision to allow greater consumer choice takes a page right out of the insurance industry play book," she wrote.