The provincial government is planning to remove OHIP coverage for any Ontarian travelling outside of Canada, and the new law would go into effect this autumn.
Under the current OHIP Out-Of-Country Traveller’s Program (OOC), Ontarians are allowed coverage of inpatient services of up to $400 per day for a high level of care (meaning an ICU or operational surgery) and $200 per day of other care.
Furthemore, $50 a day is allowed for outpatient services and $210 for for dialysis.
These rates operate as a reimbursement for services received out-of-country.
90 per cent of Ontarians who travel outside of Canada already purchase it privately.
The new policy will not affect coverage when travelling to other provinces within Canada.
I have no issue with this.
not quite the “truth”…
Good. If you can afford to travel, you can afford to pay for your own fucking medical insurance while out of the country.
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If people want to travel or stay out of the country, get travel insurance. If they can’t afford Insurance then they just have to limit their travel. Do they want Trudeau along to change their diapers? We hear he almost graduated as assistant diaper changer in a Daycare.
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Thanks for the offer, Prof, but no thank you. Much appreciated.
#FakeNews
Triggered? No need. Here are the facts …
1) The #1 travel destination for Cdns is the US
2) The avg cost for an overnight stay at a US hospital is over US$2,000 (C$400 is a drop in the bucket)
3) 90% of Cdns already purchase travel insurance
Don’t fall for the #FakeNews
Most private health care plans for travellers don’t cover pre-existing conditions. You’ve got a heart condition that’s not so bad and you head down to the trailer park for ex-pats in St Petersburg. Most likely as a senior citizen you don’t get extra health insurance.
Why travel when on death’s doorstep, then expect me to bail you out? Make bad decisions, expect bad consequences.
To get non FDA approved treatments.
Nah, I don’t wanna pay for that. Thanks.
Well, they can go offshore and get the treatment or you can pay them over the long term to sit in their wheelchairs, bed or grubby cardboard box outside the hospital and beg for money.
I’d rather not pay for any of it, but if I had to choose, I’d choose the latter. Get your ass home if you want MY money!
Here’s the thing, Dougie wants to privatize healthcare but he won’t allow me to import health care goods or build health care goods in the country without jumping through numerous expensive hoops. He wants to limit the amount of money available for people who intend to travel for health care. ie; the poor saps in Ontario who need their teeth fixed and want to get it done in Molar City Mexico or need a hip or other joint replacement and decide to get it done in Thailand.
Meanwhile, I can get immediate permission to mass 3D Print firearms in Ontario. If it’s a choice between a $5,000 a piece firearm or a $5,000 per prosthetic leg, arm or hand. Which would you choose?
