Monday, July 30, 2007

TRAVEL INSURANCE


While traveling or living overseas can be stimulating, individuals often overlook financial protection against illness and injury. There are several reasons for this over-site:

1.International travelers and expatriates are often unaware of the limitations of their existing health care plans back home in regard to overseas coverage. In most cases, their local plans will offer little or no medical coverage in a foreign country;

2.Individuals may not be aware of the astronomical cost of medical care overseas, especially in North America. Individuals, especially from countries with social medical care, mistakenly anticipate that they can independently cover medical expenditures overseas if need be

3.Travelers and expatriates are often not aware of the affordability of international medical coverage.

Individuals who do not seek financial protection against medical treatment in a foreign country are putting themselves and their families at risk not only financially, but also physically. Many hospitals worldwide will not treat foreigners who are not covered by an internationally recognized and rated insurer. FOR MORE DETAILS:http://insurance.rediff.com/cgi-bin/policies/videshyatramitra.asp