Over the weekend we had a very big announcement that may affect not just those in Ontario, but possibly the future of federal pharmacare as well.
The change to add OHIP+ , for youth under 25, were just implemented in January and was expected to result in about a 3-4% average savings for most group plans that had youth under 25 on their plans as drug claims would now be picked up by the province.
Now the new Ontario government has stated they will make OHIP+ the second payer after private plans. This change means those costs will now revert back to the employers as they had in the past (prior to the January implementation).
Ontario’s new Conservative government has announced changes to the province’s youth pharmacare program to make it second payer for Ontarian’s under age 25 who have coverage through private benefits plans.