{"id":1062,"date":"2011-09-05T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2011-04-29T12:34:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T16:34:24","slug":"chinese-student-health-insurance-for-saskatchewan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/chinese-student-health-insurance-for-saskatchewan.html","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Student Health Insurance for Saskatchewan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many provinces in Canada, Saskatchewan offers national health care under the Saskatchewan Health program to all residence in the province. International students studying in Saskatchewan for a minimum of one year are eligible for national health benefits if they have full-time attendance at an accredited educational institution, have submitted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.sk.ca\/form-he260\" target=\"_blank\">Student Certification<\/a>, and have a valid Study Permit from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cic.gc.ca\/english\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Citizenship and Immigration Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you have applied with Health Registration, you will receive a Health Services Card that can be renewed on an annual basis. If you will be studying in Saskatchewan for less than one year, you may not get a Study Permit and thus may not be eligible for Saskatchewan Health. Instead you will need to purchase a private <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/student-health-insurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">student health insurance<\/a> from either your school or independently.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note, however, that if you have traveled to another province longer than 90 days before you arrive in Saskatchewan, you will have a 3 month waiting period applied to your Saskatchewan Health plan. If this is the case, you will want to purchase a private health insurance plan to cover you for this waiting period. Some foreign students from China even purchase a supplementary insurance plan to provide additional coverage to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.sk.ca\/fully-covered-services\" target=\"_blank\">free benefits<\/a> provided under the Saskatchewan Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many provinces in Canada, Saskatchewan offers national health care under the Saskatchewan Health program to all residence in the province. International students studying in Saskatchewan for a minimum of one year are eligible for national health benefits if they have full-time attendance at an accredited educational institution, have submitted the Student Certification, and have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[611,99,105,101],"tags":[635,637,636],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-health-insurance-2","category-student-insurance","category-study-abroad","category-visa-requirements","tag-chinese-student-health-insurance-for-saskatchewan","tag-foreign-student-insurance-in-saskatchewan","tag-student-health-insurance-for-saskatchewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.internationalstudentinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}