Trillium Drug Program Application: Fill & Download for Free

All provinces have some kind of drug program. The Ontario program for independent adults under 65 is the Trillium Drug Program. Here is a link that gives you information and an application formCentral Forms RepositoryForm Classification Classification / Identification: Form Number: 014-3693-87E Edition date: 2020/05 Title: Application for Trillium Drug Program (TDP) Ministry: Health Branch/ABC: Drug Programs Delivery Branch Program: Drug Programs Delivery Branch Purpose of Form: For ODB recipients to apply Trillium Drug Program You must download Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 10.0 or above) to view/print PDF forms. Click here for further instructions. If PDF forms do not open in the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome, click here for the solution. Protecting Your Information: If you are using this online service on a shared computer in a public area (i.e. public library), it is important to ensure that you do not leave the computer unattended while accessing the service. Before leaving the computer, it is also important that you fully exit the application, clear your browser's cache (This link opens in a new window) and close down your browser. This will ensure that no one else can access any personal information you may have entered.http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/FormDetail?OpenForm&ACT=RDR&TAB=PROFILE&SRCH=4&ENV=WWE&NO=014-3693-87EAs most people have pointed out your immigration status; this is assuming that you did already qualify to immigrate.

Lack of political will to do it, say, as the British or the Canadians do it. And, Canada does not have "free health care". Far from it. What Canada does have is what Americans would recognize as auniversal (all Provincial resident-insureds are and must be covered by a Provincial plan);single-payer (only one health-care financing bureaucracy per Province);government-monopoly (the health-care financing bureaucracy is part of a Provincial government department)health-care financing system.What this means is that if you are a lawful resident in a Canadian Province, you are eligible for coverage by the Provincial plan. You get a healthcare-coverage card issued to you by your Provincial government, instead of from a private insurer to which you pay whatever the insurer chooses to assess in premium. In order to get one, you have to prove that you are:a Canadian citizen (born or naturalized); ora Canadian national (permanent resident, "Maple Leaf card" holder); oran alien lawfully present in the country by virtue of a valid immigrant or non-immigrant visa to which coverage under the Provincial plan is applicable; ANDfactually resident in the Province for at least 183 days of the year (and yes, you are required to prove this in order to keep your coverage in place).This last criterion means that it is possible for even Canadian citizens to not have coverage under a Provincial plan, if they do not meet the in-Province duration-of-residency requirements.There are no co-pays. A Provincial resident-insured never gets a bill from a physician or laboratory or other healthcare provider for covered services. Canadian doctors, of whom specialists can make more than CAD$300,000 per year, know exactly what the Province will pay for right from the outset, and this motivates them to help you right from the outset.The secret of the Canadian system being better in terms of cost to (in the Canadian system, the government) provide--and which the Affordable Care Act in the United States does NOTHING to mitigate--is because there is only one healthcare financing bureaucracy in each Province, instead of hundreds of duplicative bureaucracies.Are there exclusions? Yes. In Ontario, where the Provincial Plan is called the Ontario Health Insurance Plan or OHIP ("O-hip"), the Plan does not pay for:prescriptions (Ontario does provide prescription coverage under the Trillium Drug Plan, the Ontario Drug Benefit Program and the Exceptional Access Program, to the extent the Provincial resident-insured qualifies);chiropractic;vision;podiatry; ora semi-private or private room in one of Ontario's state-of-the-art hospitals.There are several private ancillary-benefits insurers operating in Canada which provide coverage for these, at cost, usually as an employment benefit.Aside from other funds appropriated by the Canadian federal and provincial governments, Ontario imposes the Employer Health Tax on employers, which ranges from 0.98% below CAD$200,000 in remuneration to a maximum of 1.95% above CAD$400,000 in salary remuneration. Ontario also assesses the Ontario Health Premium on individual taxpayers as part of its its income-tax assessment. It ranges from CAD$0 if your taxable income is less than CAD$20,000, to a maximum of CAD$900 if your taxable income exceeds CAD$200,600.In 2013, the Canadian federal government and the ten Provincial governments spent CAD$211,000,000,000 on the healthcare needs of about 35,000,000 Canadians.I'll say that again: two hundred and eleven BILLION dollars.That is not "free", people. Between income taxes, property taxes, and value-added taxes, Canadians pay a lot more tax than Americans--on average, Canadians pay about 42% of their income in taxes. And yes, even with a universal, single-payer, government-monopoly system, Canadians, like Americans, are getting an ever-declining return on their health-care dollar. It's just that because of that lack of multiplicative bureaucracies, the curve reflecting that decline is not as steep.