HiJust came across this site whilst at work today! I realise a lot of you are from America so may not be able to help, but if there's anyone out there who could give me some advice that would be great. I am supposed to be going to Canada this June (from England) and tried last night to buy travel insurance. My lowest quote was £4000! I am only paying £1000 for the holiday! I didn't realise it would be that much as for the last holiday I went on to Europe the insurance only cost me £25.00!! Does anyone have any ideas about where I can get a reasonable quote? Also, one company said I could try getting normal insurance that won't cover me for any cf related stuff, but not sure where to get that either and don't know if it's worth the risk. I don't really understand why it costs so much as I answered 'no' to all their questions (not on a transplant list, not been in hospital for more than 2 years, not diabetic, not got liver disease etc etc).Please help if you can. I realise it's not a life or death situation but I really don't want to cancel my trip!
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Travel Insurance - Help please!
- Thread starter Callie
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hi i live in canada my brother has cf he has never had trouble getting insurance while travling to the U.S> or anywhere our healthcare is unversial in canada and he would only have to buy extra ins if you came to canada you would get healthcare treament no matter what you should contact canadian insurance companies maybe they can help or traval with out ins you would not be refused any treament in canada and the govt goes after few people from other countries who dont have ins
HeyI live in UK as well, i went to USA twice and i don't think it cost my parents anywhere near that much, if it did we wouldn't have went, when i went to Florida in 2002 i was quite worried about getting an infection cos i had been going through a bad patch then, i asked my cf doctor if he could prescribe me antibiotics as a precation that i could take and he gave me them, which was great cos after a week of getting home i got another infection im glad i was in UK and not USA, their health system sucks and would have skinned my parents totally !! Also found that my ventilator did not work in US, their electricity mains is not high enough to power it, just in case u have one u might wanna ask a doc about that if u need to use it when there.Paul
Hi PaulDo you mean some sort of Oxygen thing when you say ventilator, or do you mean a nebuliser? I have a travel neb that can be used either in the mains or on battery, but obviously the battery won't last the whole holiday I don't think. If their mains isn't strong enough to power it, how on earth do Canadians have their treatment?Any ideas anyone?!ThanksKrissy
hia, i live in the UK too, cant help you from personal experience but have asked around on boards before and heres all i can come up with....firstly contact the CF trust as they hold numbers of special companies that offer lower ratesif you havent been in hosp for at least 6 months, try the post officei have also heard marks and spencer give very reasonable rates to ppl with CF!!! check out www.cftrust.org.uk for info on the CF trust, and there is a forum on there too; this one is great, but for UK related things the other one may be more useful! good luck <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
knifewieldingmonkey
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<blockquote>Quote<br><hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>Anonymous</b></i>Hi PaulDo you mean some sort of Oxygen thing when you say ventilator, or do you mean a nebuliser? I have a travel neb that can be used either in the mains or on battery, but obviously the battery won't last the whole holiday I don't think. If their mains isn't strong enough to power it, how on earth do Canadians have their treatment?Any ideas anyone?!ThanksKrissy<hr></blockquote>Yup, sorry, Nebuliser is what i meant, i have the same travel neb to, but no battery, shoulda thought of that before going !!Paul