Talk:Ontario Health Insurance Plan

message: Previous names of the provincial government plan were OMSIP and OHSIP.  OHSIP was later shortened to the present OHIP.
I remember, as a child, hearing the radio advertising in the late 1960s, over and over for weeks, about the changeover from OMSIP to OHSIP.  I have no memory, however, of the change from OHSIP, but that must have been in the 1970s or early 1980s.
OMSIP (Ontario Medical Services Insurance Plan) was established and enacted on July 1, 1966. On October 1, 1969, the Ontario Health Services Insurance Plan began as a provincially run and federally assisted (under the federal Medical Care Insurance Act for establishment of a national medicare plan). GBC 17:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alphabet soup: OHIP, OHSIP and OMSIP

message: In this sentence, please note the bold part: "For those Canadian citizens or permanent residents moving to Ontario from another province, the province of previous residency will continue to cover them during the three month waiting period (except Quebec, where coverage only lasts two months after leaving)."
That sentence is not correct. Quebec's coverage ends on the last day of the second month since one leaves the province. Please see: http://www.ramq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/citoyens/assurancemaladie/quitter/exterieur.shtml. Therefore, I removed the phrase in the bracket. 70.53.195.14 (talk) 20:35, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Quebec's End of Coverage

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Oppose. WP:NAME: "Avoid the use of abbreviations, including acronyms, in page naming unless the term you are naming is almost exclusively known only by its abbreviation and is widely known and used in that form. NATO, NASA, laser, radar, and scuba are good examples of acronyms that are commonly thought of as words." I would say that OHIP is most widely known in Ontario by the acronym but not as much outside of its borders. The full name is also preferable given that there are other OHIPs that could be encyclopedic articles. In health care alone: Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP), Georgia's Office of Health Information and Policy (OHIP), OHIP - Open Health Information Project .... Canuckle 04:08, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The article could be expanded by discussing past and current provisions for opting out: Although very few medical providers or eligible Ontario residents choose to opt-out of OHIP, it might be worth noting any exceptions to mandatory participation. For example, do doctors have the option to bill patients rather than billing OHIP, letting the patients seek reimbursement from OHIP? Also, what if an eligible resident neglects to enroll or chooses not to enroll in OHIP, possibly because he/she is a libertarian opposed to government involvement in health insurance, or because he/she has a communication or mental impairment and is unaware of the program or otherwise incapable of completing the necessary forms? Also, are some groups, e.g. Mennonites, exempt due to their religious beliefs? Tetsuo (talk) 04:46, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Opt-out provisions

message: We currently have a 'delisted care' section for procedures that were once covered but are no longer.
Shouldn't we have a 'listed' section for procedures which are currently covered?
For example, vasectomies? Ranze (talk) 03:24, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Listed care

message: this article says the program is funded by payroll taxes.  That's not quite accurate.  It's funded out of all the taxes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.233.20.164 (talk) 15:26, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  funding :