From: "tim \(back at home\)" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance rec.travel.europe
Subject: Re: Recommendations for travel/health Insurance
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 22:45:35 +0100


"B Vaughan"  wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 3 May 2006 19:50:03 +0100, "tim \(back at home\)"
>  wrote:
>
>>Some of you will recall that I spend my working life
>>travelling bi/tri weekly to other countries.
>>
>>Usually when in the foreign country I rely on the health
>>cover supplied to me by the E101/111 forms but I have
>>been offered a job in a country where this doesn't apply.
>>
>>So I need some travel insurance to provide me with
>>health cover (the rest of the package I can self insure).
>>I tried a couple of online ones but they had a requirement
>>"must have resided in the UK for the last 12 months"
>>which I haven't (or perhaps I have).
>
> I've used this company in the past. I've never made a claim, so don't
> know how good they are at paying up. However, they're quite good about
> changing effective dates in mid-trip and things of the like.
>
> http://www.worldwidemedical.com/home.htm
>
> I don't think they have any residence requirements.

Interesting, thanks.  (I like the way that it
costs more as one gets older, shows that they
have though about the risks properly - as I have
if I were 25 might be "taking the chance".

Though I can't understand why "including US"
jumps in cost when the policy includes a pathetic
limit on medical cover.

I would have thought that if you choose the 50K
USD limit for medical care this doesn't buy much
in any country.

tim