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That's a good idea, but what if you cannot travel because of your health?
by TheLuddite 8y ago
That's a good idea, but what if you cannot travel because of your health?
- devereaux 8y agoNot travelling because of some pain? Painkillers + business class. Not travelling because I'm unconscious or in a critical condition? Foreign insurance + air repatriation. Some countries do sell that, even to non residents. Just get world coverage - it's a bit more than $70, but if something bad happen, you get med evac'ed to that country and treated there. I'm exploring that option as I discover the wonder of medical tourism.
- TheLuddite 8y agoThanks, that's really surprising...not the stiff upper lip...but the repatriation. I thought it's only for people with residence + VIP client in a bank or something.
- devereaux 8y agoMy suggestion next time you do some tourism: ask. Get quotes. Read the whole contract. You will be surprised what some places offer.
- NicoJuicy 8y agoSo travelling should be based on the countries where there are good hospitals and then spending time on quotes and reading contracts? Who would take that advice? It's the worst advice I heard in several years. I thought travelling was about places that you want to see and trying to avoid hospitals.
- ahakki 8y agoRega offers the service for 25.- a year iirc https://www.rega.ch/en/about-us/faq.aspx?kid=56&gid=250#Frage451 https://www.rega.ch/en/about-us/faq.aspx?kid=56&gid=250#Frag...
- NicoJuicy 8y ago> If travellers have a medical problem while they are abroad. Just when you are travelling with them in the first place... Not for this use-case, where your fall ill in your home country. And, nothing there says they will pay you back fully.
- ahakki 8y agoRega is not a traveling agency. It’s an air ambulance company.
- maxxxxx 8y ago"Not travelling because I'm unconscious or in a critical condition? Foreign insurance + air repatriation." If you have an accident you will already be >50k in the negative before you even wake up. And nobody will fly you around with serious injuries.
- NicoJuicy 8y agoDo the math/research yourselve, it's not getting the same results. Even repatriation is only when you are travelling, not going abroad for visiting a hospital.