Alberta Health & Wellness
Jan 13th 2009, 3:03 pm
#16
Joined: Mar 2008
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Posts: 6,842
Re: Alberta Health & Wellness
Makes you wonder why we had such a fight for it - for example when I 1st got here, though a complete mess up and wrong advice I was given a visitors permit, I had to wait until that ran out before I could apply for the TWP then I had to wait until 3 months had passed before I was eligible for Healthcare - 9 months in total. Hubby also had to wait 3 months (into his second TWP - the 1st was for just 3 months) before his healthcare kicked in and he actually had surgery before his 3 months were up (by a week). We felt lucky that the surgery was honored by AHC - they said it was because they added the tow TWP together. Whish is what makes me wonder if the the rules have changed, that's all.
That sound a complete nightmare and it goes to show the different stories that people have about their emigration process.
I wasn't getting at you or anything Piff Poff
Jan 13th 2009, 3:08 pm
#17
Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Red Deer, Alberta
Posts: 10,612
Re: Alberta Health & Wellness
Oh Cassie I didn't think you were getting at me
It just shows what a complete mess of things using immigration agents cause
It just shows what a complete mess of things using immigration agents cause
Jan 13th 2009, 5:38 pm
#18
Joined: Dec 1969
Posts: 2,484
Re: Alberta Health & Wellness
You are entitled to health cover from day one that you arrive...
OH employer filled the forms out and sent them off for us, in the mean time i had already found a doctors, registered, sorted diabetic stuff for my son and been to see them......
They advised as soon as we had our alberta healthcare number, then ring it through
If you explain that you are waiting for your number to come through they are fine with that or ours was.
When little one went to the doctors they just wanted his healthcare number and the we had $4 to pay on the drugs he needed...
it is real easy, please dont worry
OH employer filled the forms out and sent them off for us, in the mean time i had already found a doctors, registered, sorted diabetic stuff for my son and been to see them......
They advised as soon as we had our alberta healthcare number, then ring it through
If you explain that you are waiting for your number to come through they are fine with that or ours was.
When little one went to the doctors they just wanted his healthcare number and the we had $4 to pay on the drugs he needed...
it is real easy, please dont worry
