Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by radoslawc on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:23PM
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Well as a general rule when you're travelling it' safer to buy some short term insurance, not really sure how it works in US. To some extent you cannot blame country for not taking care for foreign citizen for free. On the other hand I had medical emergency in Italy while back, and public hospital made several pretty expensive tests for free without even checking my documents. One of them (if this page is true) seems to be almost $1500: https://www.mdsave.com/procedures/echocardiography-complete-...
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Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by nraynaud on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:33PM
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I know France has an budget line for those cases where they probably won't be paid, hospitals bill the State from this special fund for people who wouldn't be able to afford it. As far I know, it's just a few millions euros per year (of 145 billions tax income).
It should be noted that the bill won't be different from an insured person bill, the prices are "posted".
Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by kylehotchkiss on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:33PM
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World Nomads offers a good product (https://www.worldnomads.com/) that I generally travel with but some travel credit cards also have pretty good medical benefits as well.
Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by walshemj on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:39PM
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Did you have a European Health Insurance Card? This is the card that lets EEA citizens get state healthcare in other EEA countries and Switzerland at a reduced cost or sometimes for free.
Re:How a Medical Catastrophe Can Bankrupt a Life
by 13of40 on Friday February 02, 2018 @01:34PM
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Her husband's a developer at Microsoft, so they had good coverage. IIRC, they just weren't carrying the special paper you're supposed to print out to tell foreign hospitals that you're covered.