Canadian Health Benefits for American Home Owners?

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millet_0220

None, you need to be a citizen or a permanent resident. If you're here and have to go to a hospital, they will treat you but there's a hefty price for it.

Cariad

Health care in Canada is provincial. You should contact the province you are thinking about to see their eligility. Here is the criterium for Ontario:

Am I eligible for Ontario health insurance?
You must have Ontario health insurance to use Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care funded health care services. You are eligible for the Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) if :

You are included under one of the following categories :

you are a Canadian citizen, permanent resident or landed immigrant, convention refugee, or are registered as an Indian under the Indian Act
you have submitted an Application for Permanent Residence or an Application for Landing and have been confirmed by Citizenship and Immigration Canada as having satisfied the medical requirements for landing
you are a foreign worker who holds a valid work permit or employment authorization which names a Canadian employer situated in Ontario and your prospective occupation, and is valid for at least six months
you are a foreign clergy member who will be providing services to a religious congregation in Ontario for at least six months
you hold a Temporary Resident Permit or Minister's Permit with case type 80 (for adoption only), 86, 87, 88 or 89
you are the spouse, same sex partner, or dependent child (under 19 years of age) of a foreign clergy member or eligible foreign worker who is to be employed in Ontario for a period of at least three consecutive years
you hold a work permit or employment authorization under the Live-In Caregivers in Canada Program or the Foreign Domestic Movement
you have been issued a work permit or employment authorization under the Caribbean Commonwealth and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program administered by the federal department of Citizenship and Immigration
and you make your permanent and principal home in Ontario
and you are in Ontario for at least 153 days of the first 183 days immediately following the date you establish residency in Ontario (you cannot be absent for more than 30 days during the first 6 months of residency)
and you are in Ontario for at least 153 days in any 12-month period
Tourists, transients or visitors are not eligible for OHIP coverage.
Your eligibility for Ontario health coverage is not determined by whether you have a job or are unemployed, or where you pay your income tax. It is based solely on your meeting one of the above citizenship or immigration categories and on you making your permanent and principal home in Ontari

Otherwise contact an American organization to see about coverage while you are in Canada

moglie

pay as you go
same as for any Canadian citizen, snowbird in the USA

tuppenybitz

unless your a citizen or a permanent resident you are not entitled to any health benefits

nbr660

NONE, you need to be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident of Canada

Explorer

Only the kind you pay for.
You can have anything you want as long as you have the money, however, if you did not pay in to the system, you will never get anything out of it.
Sorry.

CanTexan

You are not a permanent resident or a citizen of Canada, by the sounds of it. So no - you are not eligible for health benefits in any Canadian province or territory.

You may have another issue.

Proof of residency is all that's needed under Canadian tax law to make sure you pay the CANADIAN tax rate on WORLDWIDE income.

If you own property, that's the equivalent of saying you can come to Canada any time you like, and have a place to stay. The Canadian government can then pursue you with the requirement to be taxed at the appropriate rate for the total wordlwided income for your household. The tax treaty they have with the US will make sure your US taxes get paid out of what the Canadians take out of you, but you WILL be paying higer taxes (depending on your income, possibly more than double what you are paying in the US ... and there are far fewer tax credits in Canada compared to US tax law.)

Be warned ....

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