Health Insurance Abroad

intparent
Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:33:44 +0000

Not sure about the British system, but the whole point of this exercise is that they DON’T want D to come over and take advantage of their socialized health system. Wouldn’t surprise me if she didn’t get full services/top priority/etc. I wouldn’t necessarily expect her to, since she is not a taxpayer into their system. And someone in the US with no one to advocate for them would likely have a terrible experience in our system as well! Potentially much worse that D would have in the country she is going to, since essentially that country is requiring everyone to have health insurance (either their national system or some external insurance). No one coming here has historically needed that, so you can really get in trouble here and have no care at all. I really have no complaint about the requirement she have insurance, just about the insurance company’s bureaucratic snafus :)