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Perhaps, but I just find it odd that someone who left at 22 years of age ,wouldn't know it's provincial, and that there is not such thing as a CDN Medical Card and that each province has it's own.
I also don't understand why you wouldn't just Google your answer using the province you are deciding to move to.
Exactly, as laws also change from time to time. I left close to 25 years ago and I still remember OHIP. And because they changed the residency rules if I get hit with a massive medical need can no longer count on getting my treatment for “free” in Canada.
Exactly, as laws also change from time to time. I left close to 25 years ago and I still remember OHIP. And because they changed the residency rules if I get hit with a massive medical need can no longer count on getting my treatment for “free” in Canada.
Your post is a bit confusing. When you say you left 25 years ago do you mean you left Canada or do you mean you left Ontario and moved to another part of Canada? If you left Canada 25 years ago and have been a non-resident ever since then your citizenship is irrelevant and you wouldn't qualify for anything "free" in Canada, let alone medical treatment. You have to be a permanent resident of Canada.
Your post is a bit confusing. When you say you left 25 years ago do you mean you left Canada or do you mean you left Ontario and moved to another part of Canada? If you left Canada 25 years ago and have been a non-resident ever since then your citizenship is irrelevant and you wouldn't qualify for anything "free" in Canada, let alone medical treatment. You have to be a permanent resident of Canada.
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AND be able to demonstrate you have satisfied the various time-in that all province's require as part of maintaining eligibility for reimbursement of medical costs.
It's not like the old days 1970 to the early 2000's where had you been issued with one of the older cards that were basically given to any person, including Americans who could establish proof of a substantial footprint in Canada through ownership of property by showing a property tax assessment and a couple of utility bills to be issued a shiny health card entitling you to healthcare with no bills. Those days cost Canada dearly in Canadian taxpayer funded routine healthcare expenses paid on behalf of Americans who would schedule their routine medical exams or procedures for when they were at the cottage in the Kawarthas. One study in 1993 showing 63,000 such claims being filed by Americans in just one six month period alone in Ontario.
You can understand why the rules are tighter and those old cards are no longer valid.
....... Canadian taxpayer funded routine healthcare expenses paid on behalf of Americans who would schedule their routine medical exams or procedures for when they were at the cottage in the Kawarthas. One study in 1993 showing 63,000 such claims being filed by Americans in just one six month period alone in Ontario.
Holy Crow, that's a shocker!
I had no idea that kind of thing had been happening. Kind of dishonourable I think. And stupid of Canada to have ever allowed it at all. I wonder what it was like in other provinces.
I had no idea that kind of thing had been happening. Kind of dishonourable I think. And stupid of Canada to have ever allowed it at all. I wonder what it was like in other provinces.
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That was just one province and I erred substantially by missing a zero; that was 600,000 with 63,000 of them using American driver's licenses. I'm sure all provinces with a substantial American presence experienced it to some extent.
This is a good comparator to what Americans have been whining about for years but with a slightly different take with wonderful irony to say the least:
Your post is a bit confusing. When you say you left 25 years ago do you mean you left Canada or do you mean you left Ontario and moved to another part of Canada? If you left Canada 25 years ago and have been a non-resident ever since then your citizenship is irrelevant and you wouldn't qualify for anything "free" in Canada, let alone medical treatment. You have to be a permanent resident of Canada.
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You're essentially repeating what I said...I am no longer a resident in Canada and eligibility is based upon residency so I can't just turn up over the border and get covered. As BruSan said, 25 years ago an OHIP card didn't expire.
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Harsh! 
