Thanks for the information, does it mention you have to reimburse funds if you don't meet that criteria?
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Giving birth in Canada question
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It’s in the legislation.
Reimbursement, non-entitled person
18.0.1 The General Manager may make a decision to require a person to reimburse the Plan for an amount paid for an insured service rendered to the person if, after the payment is made, the General Manager determines that the person was not an insured person and was not entitled to have a payment paid from the Plan with respect to the service. 2019, c. 15, Sched. 15, s. 16 (1).
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h06#BK34
Reimbursement, non-entitled person
18.0.1 The General Manager may make a decision to require a person to reimburse the Plan for an amount paid for an insured service rendered to the person if, after the payment is made, the General Manager determines that the person was not an insured person and was not entitled to have a payment paid from the Plan with respect to the service. 2019, c. 15, Sched. 15, s. 16 (1).
https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90h06#BK34
FYI - we have seen a number of cases on the forum where the province went after someone to repay expenses. So it's not just a rule on paper, the provinces enforce it. It seems to end up being quite a bit more expensive if this happens to you than if you had just paid for it yourself. I'm assuming there must be a penalty fee of some kind - or they charge you for absolutely everything and make you repay absolutely everything.
It's understandable, they don't want people freeloading on the system.
And there are many citizens and PRs living outside the province and the country, so they don't want people taking advantage of the benefits but not contributing to it by working and paying taxes.
The penalties are to deter people who might think of it as a get the service and pay the cost later system, even if they know they don't plan to qualify.
As long as they don't introduce citizenship based taxation, i'm fine with it.
The reason I asked which Citizenship is to determine whether the child will require a Visa to Canada or not. Ex. if the child will be a US Citizen the sponsorship process will be much easier since the child can move with the parents and then obtain PR. Similarly for EU or other Visa exempt countries, the hassle is much less.
All the concerns about health insurance remain.
Asked on your previous posts you or your spouse is physician. Many specialists are unable to finds jobs in Canada. Have you looked to see if you will be able to find employment in Canada? I know of some surgeon friends who were barely able to get a locum and they graduated from the top residency program in Canada.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-nearly-one-in-five-new-specialist-doctors-cant-find-a-job-after/
Because there's no guarantee that the waiver will still be in effect when the OP decides to come back to Canada. OP only said they were planning on returning in the next year or so.
Because the waiver is not permanent, and the three months waiting period OHIP used to have was in place for situations such as this . So individuals who haven’t contributed anything to the province can’t come back specifically to give birth , and use medical resources without a waiting period . It’s not a permanent change , it’s temporary. And I can bet once the Government determines everything is under control , that three months will be back in force , as it should be