400,000 red-and-white Ontario health cards are still in circulation The Canadian Press · Posted: May 09, 2019 6:16 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 9, 2019 Ontario's then-NDP government started phasing ...

When the photo ID cards were first announced in 1995, the government estimated the red-and-white cards were being used for $65 million in fraudulent claims a year.

Hundreds of thousands of Ontarians will soon have to say goodbye for good to their old, red-and-white health cards. The government has set July 1 as the date the cards will no longer be accepted.