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Skriven 2009-01-27 17:36:44 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 26886 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Health Insurance (was: The first of many to)
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Ward Dossche wrote to Lee Lofaso on Tuesday January 27 2009 at 09:51:

LL>> We pay twice as much as what Europeans, Australians, Japanese,
LL>> Canadians, etc., pay for healthcare.

WD> You pay a lot more than twice.

Maybe, depends on where you go. I'm not aware of any European doctors who
donate their services to the community, as is common in the States.

WD> Someone I know here had his daughter with AFS stay a full year in the
WD> US at a highschool there. She needed dental work done ... it was
WD> cheaper to fly her to Belgium for a couple of days and fly her back
WD> (to Texas) than to have it done overthere.

She obviously had not thought to take up a medical insurance policy for the
period. That would have been advisable.

WD> Whenever I travel in/to the US I always take care to have the extra
WD> insurance for emergencies.

No problem, if you do it - and on longer trips you should. Everyone here (EU)
should realize that medical expenses are NOT set be the government in the USA,
but by the doctors themselves. That's competition.

Cheers, Bob

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