Medical insurance in Canada?
What have you done for medical insurance while traveling in Canada? I am retired military and have Tricare and closing in on Medicare. From what I understand neither are accepted in Canada.
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As a resident of British Columbia, one of Canada's ten provinces, when we leave to travel Canada we make sure we have "out of Province" travel health coverage. Remembering the young child with heart problems who needed air evacuation from Yukon to Vancouver a few years ago, and whose parents were presented with the air ambulance bill in the thousands, well...our system is not so universal as we thought. Air ambulance in B.C, for residents is free, although the surface ambulance costs are not. Hospital stays are covered for us with up to date status. In each hospital here, there can be found the cost for a stay without it, which will shock the average Canadian who has never seen it, or has never heard what a stay in a hospital in a comparable facility south of our border.
