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Refugee health care : Soins de santé pour les réfugiés : impacts des récentes coupures

27 Feb 2013

On June 30, 2012, the federal government implemented cuts to its Interim Federal Health (IFH) Program, which covers basic health care for refugees, refugee claimants and certain other non-citizens. IFH never covered more than essential services. Figures show that refugee claimants generally needed very little health care and cost the taxpayer significantly less than the average Canadian. Nevertheless, some refugees fall sick and need health care. The new IFH rules create a complex series of categories, based on immigration status, which each have different levels of access to federally-funded health care. Health professionals, refugee advocates and others expressed grave concern when the changes were first announced. Now that the changes have been in effect for several months, what have the impacts been?
public policy refugees economics, medical
Pages
6
Published in
Canada

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