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The Ontario Health Insurance Plan (French: Assurance-Santé de l'Ontario), commonly known by the acronym OHIP (pronounced / ˈ oʊ h ɪ p / OH-hip), is the government-run health insurance plan for the Canadian province of Ontario.
Programs vary by province. In Ontario, for example, most prescriptions for youths under the age of 24 are covered by the Ontario health insurance plan if no private insurance plan is available. [43] Competitive practices such as advertising are kept to a minimum, thus maximizing the percentage of revenues that go directly towards care.
St Marys, Ontario Brant Mutual Insurance Company 1861 Brantford, Ontario CAA Insurance Company: 1974 Markham, Ontario Founded in Toronto as the Ontario Motor Insurance Company Canada Life: 1847 Winnipeg, Manitoba Founded in Toronto. Amalgamed in 2020 with Great-West Life and London Life under the ownership of Great-West Lifeco. Headquartered in ...
The Canassurance Hospital Service Association, also called Blue Cross Canassurance, is a not-for-profit health insurance provider in Canada. [2] It is a member of the Canadian Association of Blue Cross Plans, operating in Ontario under the brand Ontario Blue Cross and in Quebec as Québec Blue Cross (French: Croix Bleue du Québec). [3] [4]
This plan met with immediate success resulting in 2.25 million members by 1958. With the introduction of the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan by the Ontario government in 1959, Blue Cross had to shift its focus to offer prepayment options for semi-private care, extended health care, prescription drugs, dental care, and other benefits.
Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal healthcare coverage to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and depending on the province or territory, certain temporary residents.
According to the United States Census Bureau, 59.3% of U.S. citizens have health insurance related to employment, 27.8% have government-provided health-insurance; nearly 9% purchase health insurance directly (there is some overlap in these figures), and 15.3% (45.7 million) were uninsured in 2007. [23]
The Canadian Association of Blue Cross Plans (CABCP; French: Association canadienne des Croix Bleue) is a federation of regional not-for-profit insurance providers in Canada. All providers that are members of CABCP, called "member plans", are independent entities which are overseen by the association to ensure consistent performance standards.