| In some countries, the hospital will treat saving the life of the patient as top
priority, and sort out how they get paid later. Not all the world is like the
US, where whether you live or die depends on which insurance you have, and how
close you are to one of "their" hospitals, and medical care has become a highly
profitable business, which manages to support many thousands of
ambulance-chasing lawyers. In much of the world, emergency medical care is
seen primarily as a social benefit to which everyone is entitled. What you may
have to pay for secondary treatment does vary considerably, even within the EU,
but it will never come anywhere near to US style costs, unless perhaps it is for
purely cosmetic reasons, or you insist on a private hospital. As I understand
it, Obama tried to make the US more like the rest of the world, but was not
entirely successful, due to opposition from the extreme right, who bamboozled
people who would actually have benefitted considerably into opposing his
plans. Anyway, why does anyone think that RMS would not have at least basic
travel insurance, which would cover this? If you can book an international
flight, you can obtain insurance without revealing any additional details that
you would rather keep private. Last time I booked a flight, it was just a case
of ticking an extra box on a web site. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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