I have some advice for anyone traveling outside the US — purchase travel evacuation insurance. If you, or someone with whom you are traveling, gets seriously ill or injured in a foreign country and you do not have evacuation insurance, it could cost you your first born to get home.
My goddaughter recently suffered a ruptured colon on a vacation in Los Cabos, Mexico. It cost her $27,000 to get a medical flight to San Diego. And to get that, she had to go through the US State Department in Cabo San Lucas. It also cost her an additional $700 in bribe money to give the plane clearance out of Los Cabo.
There are a number of excellent medevac insurance companies, including Angel MedFlight, Travel Guard and Medjet. You can find all three and others online. I have no stake in any medevac insurance plan. This is a case of being safe rather than sorry.
— Stan Wawer
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