Protect Yourself While Abroad With the Best Travel Medical Insurance!

As a person who travels a lot myself, I’m very much concerned about safe travel. And I’m well aware of the benefits of a good travel medical insurance when traveling abroad.

Imagine you are several thousand kilometers away from home, on a trip to Europe, for example, visiting the Eiffel Tower, and you get ill. Or you break your leg, or you get a stroke. So what do you do?

Having secured protection through a good travel medical insurance before you commence your trip is essential for your safe travel. However, while travel insurance programs have important benefits, there may be medical evacuation restrictions that could leave you wishing you had additional protection. The MedjetAssist membership program closes this gap.

I think no travel insurance, standard medical insurance, assistance plan or platinum card membership offers a protection program as comprehensive and with as few restrictions as Medjet.

Medjet is the premier medical evacuation and repatriation membership program in North America and an important supplement to traditional travel insurance.

Most platinum cards and travel insurance policies will only arrange to medically evacuate you, IF medically necessary and then to the closest appropriate medical center. Most of them will not get you to the hospital of your choice if you are hospitalized while traveling.

As a Medjet member if you become hospitalized 150 miles or more from home and meet transport criteria, virtually anywhere in the world, Medjet will arrange medical transfer to the hospital of your choice. With Medjet there are no medical necessity clauses, transport cost limitations or additional fees and no pre-existing condition exclusions up to age 75.

Most Medjet members want to get back to their home hospital, medical professionals and network of family and friends. As a Medjet member, the decision on where you want to go is yours.

Medjet offers annual and short-term memberships with protection provided 24 hours a day during the selected travel period. Medjet also offers a range of specialty memberships such as – collegiate programs suitable for students gaining credits abroad, domestic memberships for adventurers who travel only within the United States, and a motorcycle protection upgrade specifically tailored for the motorcycle rider.

Two Travel Agents Wind Up Taking Their Own Advice (Choosing the Best Travel Medical Insurance)

Travel agents Pat and Bob Watson faithfully carry their MedjetAssist card on their many travels, and they have always encouraged MedjetAssist protection for their clients. The pair have a newfound appreciation for MedjetAssist since their own brush with a medical crisis on a return trip from Hong Kong. The husband and wife team run Watson and Watson, LTD, in Scarsdale, New York. They were on the first leg of their journey home from an overseas symposium for Virtuoso Travel Agents when something went terribly wrong.

“We were on a plane from Hong Kong to London,” Bob recalls. “Pat had been feeling tired, but we didn’t think anything of it. She fell asleep on the plane, but when she woke up about two hours into the flight, she wasn’t feeling well. She wanted to use the bathroom, but she couldn’t stand up. I noticed a little slurring of her speech and that her right arm was not moving. I knew right away it was a stroke.”

The crew members and a medical-student passenger on the plane were very helpful, but it was too far into the journey to return to Hong Kong, so the plane flew on. In London, an ambulance was waiting to take Pat to a national health plan hospital near Heathrow Airport. She was assigned a bed in a ward with seven other people.

Rather than trying to move Pat to a private hospital in London, Bob wanted to bring her home. He called MedjetAssist, and two hours later, a medically equipped jet and team were on the way to retrieve the couple from London for their journey home.

“I think there is a misconception about the services offered by MedjetAssist,” Bob says now, as he reflects on the experience. “People think they are getting the same services with a platinum card or certain other evacuation services, but it isn’t the same. With proper verification, MedjetAssist will bring you to your home hospital, but those other plans will only take you to the nearest hospital that they feel is qualified to treat your condition.”

“That is a very important difference,” he stresses. “I didn’t recognize the importance of it until this experience – but now I do. You have to read the fine print, which I never did before. If you just scan the information on other plans, you’ll see they talk about medical evacuation, but you have to read further to find out where exactly they are willing to take you and to what end.”

Now, Bob and Pat joke that they have become MedjetAssist evangelists. “For what the membership costs, it would be just plain stupid to travel without it,” Bob says. “The people from MedjetAssist were just terrific. They didn’t leave anything for us to do. The staff, pilot, doctors and nurses took care of every detail from the moment we called MedjetAssist until we settled in at the hospital at home in White Plains, New York. They are wonderful people, and they made us feel so good at a time when we really needed reassurance.”

More real life testimonials about the best travel medical insurance are available on the website of Medjet.

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