Ontario urged to eliminate OHIP wait
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Feb 03 2011
…advocates for immigrants are calling on the province to eliminate the three-month wait time for newcomers to access OHIP. The Right to Health Care Coalition, a network of more than 30 Greater Toronto agencies, will launch a “postcard campaign” Friday to put the issue on the electorate’s radar… The policy, said to save Ontario $90 million a year, also serves as a “disincentive to persons moving to Ontario only briefly for the purpose of getting free medical services” …Ontario and British Columbia [are] the only provinces with such restrictions in place.
Tags: budget, immigration, mental Health, participation
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Immigrant women hurt by barriers to health care: Study
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
March 30, 2010
According to the study, fifteen per cent of immigrants who had been here for less than five years said they don’t have a family doctor, more than double the rate for Canadian-born men and women… “Some of them would not need to go to the emergency if they could get to a doctor’s office,” said lead researcher Arlene Bierman. “The country’s visible minority population will double by 2031… We need to be able to better serve the growing health-care needs of this community and reduce barriers.”
Tags: Health, immigration
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