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#21 Favs

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 10:27 am

FYI & appealing to the more tight fisted..... laugh.gif


..........reason for having an EHIC & travel insurance (lifted straight from the insurers small print - if one has it they all will cos they all P in the same pot).



If you use an EHIC to reduce the cost of
your medical treatment in Europe and we successfully recover 75%
or more of any amounts we have paid on your behalf, you will not
have to pay the £50 excess for any medical expense claim.


Save £50
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Posted 15 January 2012 - 10:47 am

Another reason to get travel insurance -

one of my colleagues was working on a mini with a mate, they were trying to get it started and petrol back-fired out of the carb and burned his torso, head and hands. He was rushed to hospital and then to a specialist burns unit (all sorted by the NHS F.O.C.). He's okay now - a bit scarred btw.

If he had got burned in Switzerland, he would have been rushed to hospital (EHIC - initial treatment covered), then transfered (covered by travel insurance, invoiced to him without (a lot of CHFs?)) to a burns unit. He then needs to be flown back to blighty, travel insurance pays/ no travel insurance stuck out there?

You sustain a really bad injury or illness, you only have limited cover with EHIC (effectively just treatment), with travel insurance - depending on cover - you can leave all the financial/organisational/communicational problems to them and jsut get on with getting better.

I'm a skintflint, i've travelled in europe with out breakdown (and fixed a clutch on the side of the road!!), without much spare cash etc. but always with travel insurance. Google around for horror stories, who took a chance so they had a bit more spending money and then make the decision.

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Posted 15 January 2012 - 12:49 pm

Had to use EHIC card in Portugal last year two trips to Portimao hospital for my wife, blood tests ct scan ect great treatment
free, took hours but we had the test results on the second day, try that on the NHS.


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