The Canada Health Act governs all provincial medical plans such as OHIP. The Portability provision of the Canada Health Act provides that provincial health plans must reimburse for out-of-country or out-of-province emergency medical treatment on the same basis as would reimburse for the same treatment within the province. The fact is that Ontario does not comply with this provision of the Canada Health Act and hasn’t done so since Bob Rae’s government in the early ’90s. This coverage is not cheap and its cost increases with age, the duration of your stay and your health conditions. Those seniors who spend the winter outside Canada will be the most affected as they have to purchase emergency travel medical insurance for a longer duration.

Source: thestar May 05, 2019 04:03 UTC