Medical claim Denied
Friends of ours have had their medical claim denied. Lots of money after a medical emergency in Texas. They have exhausted the appeal process with the insurance company. They are determined to fight t...
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Hi,
Anything that is life threatening is dealt with in a timely manner. Wait lists do exist, but they exist in USA, too. Unlike USA, we have the freedom to go to any facility in our Province.
The supplemental insurance is a night mare, which gets worse the older you become. They are for emergency care only. As soon as the patient can travel they come back to Canada.
My out of pocket cost for a broken leg in Canada was $60. In USA the average cost is $17,000.00.
Anything that is life threatening is dealt with in a timely manner. Wait lists do exist, but they exist in USA, too. Unlike USA, we have the freedom to go to any facility in our Province.
The supplemental insurance is a night mare, which gets worse the older you become. They are for emergency care only. As soon as the patient can travel they come back to Canada.
My out of pocket cost for a broken leg in Canada was $60. In USA the average cost is $17,000.00.
westernrvparkowner wrote:
Given the long waits for some procedures that I hear exist in the Canadian Heath system, if the policies didn't exclude them, people would just buy a supplemental policy and come to the states for instant surgeries and care. Somewhere in the back of my pea-brain I hear an alarm going off that your friends aren't exactly telling you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth regarding what exactly they knew about their health condition before they went to Texas.
