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From the CDC web page
"Avoid nonessential travel to Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.
If you must travel, please make sure to do the following:
Before your trip check your health insurance plan and benefits to learn what is covered"
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/ebola-guinea
Now, the CDC does go on to say that you should make sure you are covered for emergency medical evacuation, but I find the advice to check your insurance policy morbidly wonderful.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)Though I've talked to a surprising number of DUers who are convinced that Duncan's being turned away the first time couldn't possibly have had anything to do with his lack of health insurance.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)...so fairly easy to ring up to see if they're in-network.
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)our company provides a 'rider' just for that eventuality. there is not much worse that i can think of related to travel than being stuck in a foreign country, whose healthcare options may be very limited, and being told that you can fly home in that air-ambulance, but it is going to be on your own dime (or $100,000... give or take).
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hedgehog
(36,286 posts)it's just that as I read the phrase "check you coverage" I imagined calling up the insurance company and asking if I'm covered for Ebola......
ProdigalJunkMail
(12,017 posts)we just got out of the hospital yesterday (my wife had some tests) and i can't wait to see what's NOT covered...
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notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I did not know.