Ontario's accelerated war against Medicare misuse another sign of leaner health care times.
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Abstract
A special-investigations unit is helping the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) curb the fraud and abuse that has been draining millions of health care dollars from the province. The government is taking a tougher line on foreigners who use friends' or relatives' OHIP cards, people who use misplaced, stolen or counterfeit cards, and on snowbirds who deliberately bend residency requirements as they try to hang on to medicare benefits. In 1994-95, Ontario spent $74 million on health care for Ontarians travelling or living abroad.