Travel Health Insurance
We are planning a trip later this month to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. We need temporary health insurance to cover my wife and me while there, and my wife while out of our area in Texas. I have a...
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mclee47 wrote:
or will it cover a resulting hospitalization? When a serious hospitalization can cost $100,000 or more, that is too big a crapshoot for me.
I just want to add, for the benefit of any one else reading this thread, that you can also buy a Medical Evacuation Policy. This is the one that provides an air ambulance, complete with nurse (or doctor if necessary, I think) to fly you home.
There's also a list of such companies on the State Department site referenced above.
Canada, of course, has excellent hospitals. But if you were going somewhere more third-worldish, you would really want one of those, too.
