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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to
the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... http://articlesupdates.googlepages.c...insurance_tips |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote:
Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
"Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Until you have to pay for hospital bills and an air ambulance to bring you back home (in this case from the USA to the UK) after a hit-and-run car accident. £100 per year for annual travel insurance seems like a bargain! |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:43:22 -0800 (PST), Tchiowa
wrote: On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Worst advice ever! Even if just for the medical cover, a few $ to save you potentially millions on medical costs/repatriation home sounds like quite a good deal to me! |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money.
Worst advice ever! It's great advice for most travelling Americans. We have to pay for health insurance at home, which covers us no matter where we are. For people in more civilized countries with universal heath care, some plans cover you outside the country, some don't, so add-on travel insurance could make sense if yours doesn't. R's, John |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
On Nov 24, 11:24 pm, "Nigel" wrote:
"Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Until you have to pay for hospital bills and an air ambulance to bring you back home (in this case from the USA to the UK) after a hit-and-run car accident. £100 per year for annual travel insurance seems like a bargain! If you have decent medical insurance at home that's all covered. 20 years, close to 3 million miles, 3/4 of my time spent outside the country, never had the insurance and never will. |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
"Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 24, 11:24 pm, "Nigel" wrote: "Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Until you have to pay for hospital bills and an air ambulance to bring you back home (in this case from the USA to the UK) after a hit-and-run car accident. £100 per year for annual travel insurance seems like a bargain! If you have decent medical insurance at home that's all covered. 20 years, close to 3 million miles, 3/4 of my time spent outside the country, never had the insurance and never will. - - - - Exactly, for most of us Europeans we don't need any medical insurance when at home - hence it's a necessity to have extra cover when away overseas on holiday. Remember, newsgroups are *worldwide* hence a blanket statement: "Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money" may be true for someone who is based in the USA whose home medical insurance covers them for worldwide medical treatment and repatriation, it certainly is not the case for those of us that live elsewhere! |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
"Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 24, 11:24 pm, "Nigel" wrote: "Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Until you have to pay for hospital bills and an air ambulance to bring you back home (in this case from the USA to the UK) after a hit-and-run car accident. £100 per year for annual travel insurance seems like a bargain! If you have decent medical insurance at home that's all covered. That depends upon your understanding of "decent". I have decent medical insurance when at home, but it covers me for diddly squat when I away. tim |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
Nigel wrote:
"Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Until you have to pay for hospital bills and an air ambulance to bring you back home (in this case from the USA to the UK) after a hit-and-run car accident. £100 per year for annual travel insurance seems like a bargain! I wouldn't bet $100 for insurance is going to get you much. |
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Some Great Tips on Travel Insurance
"mrtravel" wrote in message . .. Nigel wrote: "Tchiowa" wrote in message ... On Nov 23, 6:27 pm, jennyjenny wrote: Travel insurance is meant to insure against anything that happens to the traveler while he is away from home. Most of the policies cover theft, injury, loss, or death... Best tip ever: Don't buy it. Giant waste of money. Until you have to pay for hospital bills and an air ambulance to bring you back home (in this case from the USA to the UK) after a hit-and-run car accident. £100 per year for annual travel insurance seems like a bargain! I wouldn't bet $100 for insurance is going to get you much. My £100 annual travel insurance (note pounds sterling not dollars) gets me $10million (US dollars) medical insurance to cover all medical bills when overseas and an air ambulance to get me home if needed. Other standard benefits are for flight delays, baggage loss etc. etc. Nigel. |
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