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Well as a general rule when you're travelling it' safer to buy some short term insurance, not really sure how it works in US. To some extent you cannot blame co
by radoslawc 9y ago
Well as a general rule when you're travelling it' safer to buy some short term insurance, not really sure how it works in US. To some extent you cannot blame country for not taking care for foreign citizen for free. On the other hand I had medical emergency in Italy while back, and public hospital made several pretty expensive tests for free without even checking my documents. One of them (if this page is true) seems to be almost $1500: https://www.mdsave.com/procedures/echocardiography-complete-ecg-cardiac-echo/d784fbc8 https://www.mdsave.com/procedures/echocardiography-complete-...
- nraynaud 9y agoI know France has an budget line for those cases where they probably won't be paid, hospitals bill the State from this special fund for people who wouldn't be able to afford it. As far I know, it's just a few millions euros per year (of 145 billions tax income). It should be noted that the bill won't be different from an insured person bill, the prices are "posted".
- kylehotchkiss 9y agoWorld Nomads offers a good product (https://www.worldnomads.com/ https://www.worldnomads.com/) that I generally travel with but some travel credit cards also have pretty good medical benefits as well.
- 13of40 9y agoHer husband's a developer at Microsoft, so they had good coverage. IIRC, they just weren't carrying the special paper you're supposed to print out to tell foreign hospitals that you're covered.
- walshemj 9y agoDid you have a European Health Insurance Card? This is the card that lets EEA citizens get state healthcare in other EEA countries and Switzerland at a reduced cost or sometimes for free. https://www.gov.uk/european-health-insurance-card https://www.gov.uk/european-health-insurance-card