[Maritime Q-Scout]

I used to be on the board of a student health plan. International Students' insurance is different from domestic. It was a completely different plan.

If you attend SAIT, for example, as a student you enroll in the domestic plan (covers prescriptions, physio, eye wear, dental, etc) and have the option to opt out if you have your own coverage (such as through your parent). If you're an international student you had to have the domestic plan *in addition* to the international plan which covered what the province covered (hospital stays, doctors visits, emergency, etc). International Students did *NOT* have the option to opt out, it was manditory (at least at the school I worked at).

I will qualify by saying that was almost 10 years ago, so things *may* have changed, but I would be surprised.

In addition, other than birth control, students at large do not burden the healthcare system at all.