Health Coalition to Ontario: Don’t reimpose crippling health care fees on 500,000 uninsured
Health Coalition to Ontario: Don’t reimpose crippling health care fees on 500,000 uninsured
By Hamid Moghimi
New Canadian Media
Ontario’s Health for All Coalition is urging the provincial government to keep a COVID-19 directive in place that helps ensure universal access to healthcare services, independent of insurance status.The open letter, signed by more than 200 organizations and 1,000 people, warns that Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government may be imminently planning on rescinding changes made in March 2020 that removed a three-month waiting period for OHIP eligibility and providing funding for medically necessary services for refugee claimants whose claims have been denied, temporary foreign workers between contracts, students who are often underinsured by their schools, and people who are undocumented.
The letter reads in part:
“As frontline Ontario healthcare providers, members of the health community, and community organizations, we are calling on our provincial government to do what is best for the people of Ontario: maintain the existing directives through a permanent program to ensure universal access to healthcare services for people living in Ontario.”
Healthcare coverage is essential and for a new immigrant or a refugee with an unstable status or lack of financial support, the cost of a simple procedure can be a nightmare.
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