Medical Hospital Care and Interim Federal Health Program

Immigration Minister John McCallum: Yet Ottawa must revisit the issue of which level of government is paying for their medical and hospital care, according to The Chronicle Herald. Listening to concerns about security and the logistics of finding proper housing, the Trudeau government has moved the timeline, and now plans to bring in only 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of December, another 25,000 by the end of February, and possibly 50,000 by the end of 2016. Over the next few weeks, they will be welcomed in Nova Scotia by at least 60 private groups. Immigration Minister John McCallum should be commended for his reversal of previous cuts to the Interim Federal Health Program . However, this mainly affects privately sponsored refugees and supplemental benefits such as dental and eye care, and prescriptions. However, the process will be expedited, and may result in a refugee being covered by provincial insurance within a few days or weeks of arriving in Canada. Services rendered by physicians and hospitals will be paid for by the IFHP only until a refugee is covered by provincial health insurance. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.