Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
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Re: Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
I have had 2 stays in hospital in India with insurance, both times pneumonia. Without the insurance i would now be dead or skint. I don,t know about KOW but in India if you are paying you can,t really haggle and they really exagerate what treatment you need drugs, all sorts of MRI scans, Xrays and will just milk you for all they can.
I am not sure about long term travel insurance but a couple of months travel insurance from UK for India works out at about £2 a day.
charlie
I am not sure about long term travel insurance but a couple of months travel insurance from UK for India works out at about £2 a day.
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Re: Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
That is OK for short time holidays. But what is there for long time expats?tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2017 6:16 pm I have had 2 stays in hospital in India with insurance, both times pneumonia. Without the insurance i would now be dead or skint. I don,t know about KOW but in India if you are paying you can,t really haggle and they really exagerate what treatment you need drugs, all sorts of MRI scans, Xrays and will just milk you for all they can.
I am not sure about long term travel insurance but a couple of months travel insurance from UK for India works out at about £2 a day.
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I have never looked into it. But you can get up to a year in one policy for travel. After that is strays into a different type of insurance, ie not travel insurance.
Old people over 60 living in Asia would probably have to pay a lot for what is basically health insurance as apposed to travel insurance.
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Old people over 60 living in Asia would probably have to pay a lot for what is basically health insurance as apposed to travel insurance.
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Re: Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
If you intend to ride a moto check the small print very very carefully,there are hundreds of loop holes they come up with.
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yep loopholes, they do everthing possible in order to avoid a pay out so check them.
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Re: Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
yeah, ive used it a few times for about 6-7months it usually costs me around £70 i think, all depends on how much excess you want to payJasper wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2017 5:34 pmYeah, this company does a 'backpacker' policy as well for the same price.Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2017 4:58 am if you look for "backpacker" travel insurance thats usually open for country hopping, not too expensive either
Another advantage of using them is that I don't have to tell them the countries I want to visit before I go there, whereas with some other insurers I'd have to get in touch with them each time I wanted to travel which I couldn't be arsed doing!
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I think the hospitals charge less and don't take the piss if you don't have insurance and are paying yourself.
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If insurance are paying who cares what they charge? The big insurance companys have trusted hospital in most places.
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Re: Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
The large hospital bills put up the insurance premiums.tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2017 10:59 am If insurance are paying who cares what they charge? The big insurance companys have trusted hospital in most places.
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Re: Insurance for Long-Term Travellers
Thanks for all the pointers, everyone.
I'm going to sleep on it for a while before I decide whether to give the blood-suckers my hard-earned.
I'm going to sleep on it for a while before I decide whether to give the blood-suckers my hard-earned.
Milk was a bad choice
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