Proposed Immigration rules for Snowbirds
US Immigration supposedly will be changing some of the regs re snowbirds. This has been discussed here previously. BUT, according to USA Today the new 8 month rule will only apply to those who own hom...
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Tequila wrote:
Canadian medicare will cover you up to what it would cost in Canada which works in Mexico for the most part, so you just buy Evac insurance.
A while ago after some digging I found funny numbers like $60 a day for hospital room if outside Canada, and about same much for outpatient doctors. While outpatient specialist in MX can really cost $60-100, I doubt that hospital will be $60. Definitely not a private hospital. As to their public hospitals.... I would consider it a very, very last resort, like if I'm in so bad shape that can't make it to Canada. It's a poor country, lines in emergency rooms in a big city like Ensenada are longer than in Vancouver, less equipment and nurses are less trained. We are complaining on nurses and LPs in BC, but in Mexico they are worse yet :)
Evac insurance is a must. Often it's included in travel insurance or annual plan, and should be added if it's not. Note that the majority of Evac plans will bring you to the "closest" hospital, not the hospital of your choice, so if they take you to San Diego because Ensenanda can't handle it, then Canadian provincial plan will be useless, you must have a private insurance for the US, and this is costly. Some standalone Evac plans will bring you to the hospital of your choice - if you are in a shape good enough to make such a decision and to survive trip to a distant hospital of your choice.
