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Not The Way We Treat Our None Paying Medical Tourists?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.IMO it a failure of humanity on the part of foreign countries not to cover medical emergencies. But also any UK citizen entitled to NHS treatment here should be covered when visiting elsewhere anyway since not all foreign countries have civilised practices. If you'd be covered at home you should be covered on vacation/business elsewhere. Deliberate queue jumping treatments excluded.
OG, I dont think you would forget this:
"Mr King had failed to declare he had been hospitalised with a bout of peritonitis"
//Why rely on the applicant to get it right ?//
Maybe because they must have been there and there is not always a way for the insurance company to check?
Even said, I am highly dubious on this particular report.
"Mr King had failed to declare he had been hospitalised with a bout of peritonitis"
//Why rely on the applicant to get it right ?//
Maybe because they must have been there and there is not always a way for the insurance company to check?
Even said, I am highly dubious on this particular report.
This is awful, there's no doubt about that!!
But, I am against medical tourism in a big way and I wouldn't dream of travelling without medical insurance. I have kidney problems and depression so I know my premiums would be higher, but I've needed to claim in the past and never had any problems, as I ensure my medical history on all the forms is correct.
But, I am against medical tourism in a big way and I wouldn't dream of travelling without medical insurance. I have kidney problems and depression so I know my premiums would be higher, but I've needed to claim in the past and never had any problems, as I ensure my medical history on all the forms is correct.
//They can find out when it suits them, if follows they could find out as a matter of practice. //
In some instances they can but others not easily at all. To acheive what you ask they would have to obtain every applicants medical records (expensive) and send everyone for a medical to ensure nothing obvious has been carried out outside the records. I doubt you(or anyone else) would want that cost added to your policy (circa £300) nor would you want the time and effort to do it.
In some instances they can but others not easily at all. To acheive what you ask they would have to obtain every applicants medical records (expensive) and send everyone for a medical to ensure nothing obvious has been carried out outside the records. I doubt you(or anyone else) would want that cost added to your policy (circa £300) nor would you want the time and effort to do it.
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