Arranging health insurance in your new country of residence can be one of the most important and confusing issues you’ll face as you prepare for your new life overseas. The options are many.
What’s best for you? We can’t say, of course. However, I can tell you that the international health insurance lief and I have chosen to carry since we left the States more than 13 years ago is with Bupa.
Why Bupa? We consider it the best international health insurance available.
Bupa provides…
- Plans that can include coverage in the United States…
- More than 5,500 participating hospitals and clinics worldwide…
- Flexible options, allowing you to choose where you want to be treated, in a network or in any recognized hospital or clinic worldwide…
- The option in many cases for paying your hospital bills directly, saving you the out-of-pocket expense and the hassle of chasing down reimbursement…
- A long track record, as the company was established in 1947…
- More than 10 million insured in more than 190 countries…
- A 24-hour hotline, where your call is answered by multi-lingual staff…
- Coverage that includes emergency evacuation and repatriation services…
- A policy to pay all claims in the currency of the region where you reside, so you don’t have to worry about the exchange rate when paying your medical bills…
- No limit on the number of claims in any one-year period…
In addition, Bupa’s rates are very competitive relative to other international insurance options. In other words, this is the most comprehensive, complete, and reliable international health insurance you can arrange…and it’ll likely cost you considerably less than you’ve been spending for health coverage in the United States, for example.
In fact, your Bupa International coverage could, depending on your age and country of residence, cost less than Medicare. And, again, your Bupa policy will follow you wherever you travel.
As I said, we’ve been sold on Bupa International since we left the States. And the more research we’ve done, the more convinced we’ve become that this is the gold standard for international health insurance.
