Kingston, ON, Canada / CKWS TV
CKWS Newswatch
Changes to the Ontario Drug Benefit Program mean low income seniors will have to shell out less for prescriptions.
Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins recently announced that an additional 170-thousand low income seniors will be eligible for more subsidies.
Once they’re enrolled in the revamped program they will no longer have to pay the annual one-hundred dollar deductible.
The co-payment fee for each prescription will also go down from 6-dollars to 2.
People who are 65 and older are automatically eligible for the Ontario Drug Benefit Program.
Catherine Milks/Communications Director, Seniors Association Kingston Region
“I know it’s going to help them. They make decisions everyday about small amounts of money so even though this might seem like a small amount to many people I know for many of our seniors it’s going to mean a lot.”
Roy Croxford
“The drugs have always, always been too expensive.”
Phyllis Livesey
“Because we have private coverage he only had to pay two hundred and eighty dollars, that was twenty percent. How could somebody who didn’t have private coverage afford to do that?”