INSURANCE FOR SPECIAL SITUATIONS - MED-EVAC INSURANCE COVERAGE

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MED-EVAC -- DO YOU NEED IT? IS IT WORTH IT?

One missionary tells of a child who fell out of a tree in Cambodia in 1994. The parents thought the injury was serious and medical evacuated him to Singapore for a cost of $25,000. The family did not have that kind of money. How did they pay for it? They appealed to their supporters!

What's another solution? Be covered with Medical Evacuation Insurance. For a reasonable sum a family can have insurance that provides medical evacuation services at their disposal. These companies offer round-the-clock services all over the world. The client is given a call-collect number with which to contact them.

Many international insurance plans include medical evacuation in their coverage. But you can also purchase a stand-alone medical evacuation policy.

Do you need it? That's the problem with insurance. Once you have it you hope you never need it. And you may never need it. As a foreign worker for 30 years I always thought I must have insurance--first of all, as health security for my family and second, as an act of responsibility to my supporters who acted so sacrificially to keep us involved in overseas work. I felt that they had a "right" to expect us to use part of their financial support to purchase international health insurance.