Quote from: asiangurliee on May 20, 2007, 03:04:17 PM
Quote from: gothique11 on May 01, 2007, 06:32:52 PM
I'm going to Montreal (Dr. Bassard or Dr Menard) for my SRS sometime spring-ish or summer-ish 2008. I'm going there because they are good, and my province pays for the surgery there. I hear Meltzer is good, too (I have a friend going to Meltzer in July). Most of the post-op people I know here have gone to montreal and I haven't run into anyone with any problems, and everyone has said the results were great.
aww really? I live in Ontario, does that mean if I move to Quebec, the province will pay me for the surgery with Dr. Bassard or Dr Menard? I though that's a private clinic?? The doctors sound really good, btw, i went to their website and it looks very professional.
No, the only Province that Covers SRS fully in Canada is Alberta. Ontario no longer covers SRS (de-listed in 1998). Quebec only covers SRS if it is done at a public hospital, and Dr. Bassard is in a private clinic, so no, Quebec will not cover it. B.C.'s funding for the surgery is dried up, so very few people are able to get through the system there. Other provinces sometimes cover parts of the SRS, but I'm not sure how much. And sometimes the loops you have to go through are silly.
If you're a Canadian Citizen, moving to Alberta and getting onto Alberta Health Care are easy (if you're not Canadian, it's harder and the cost and wait of immigration is a lot). I can't remember how long you need to be an Albertan Citizen before you can access the benefits, but I don't think it is longer than six months. During that wait, however, you can always get your referral into see Dr. Warneke in Edmonton. He is the only doctor in the province who can approve SRS funding. The other doctor has retired. Dr. W is also on his way to retirement. The wait list to see Dr. Wis a year to a year and a half. After that, it is a year or more before SRS. So, a good plan is to look at it as 2-3 years. And, by then, you may be shuffled off to another doctor if he retires. If two doctors go on, then the wait list might go down. I believe they only approve a certain number of surgeries per year. Mine is in the process of being approved this year, for me to go next year.
Alberta covering SRS is almost ironic, considering how red-neck the province is and how conservative it is. I live in Cowtown (Calgary) if you're wondering.
Posted on: August 16, 2007, 06:06:04 PM
And, yes, there are a lot of trans people in this province... Wez tak'n overz!
