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What do people do for health insurance in this situation? Or is it a don't get sick or hurt kind of deal?
by OneOneOneOne 12y ago
What do people do for health insurance in this situation? Or is it a don't get sick or hurt kind of deal?
- patio11 12y agoSingle datum: I barely got the words "I quit my job the day before yesterday and am hence..." out before the friendly clerks at city hall put an application for (Japanese) national insurance in my hand. Had a card 20 minutes later.
- _delirium 12y agoThe 3-month-tourist-visa case is pretty tricky. You can buy travel health insurance pretty reasonably, but most policies limit the length of a covered trip to 1 month at a time, and specify that it cannot be for work or study. If on the other hand you have official residence in another country, you can either buy local insurance there, or be covered under their national system (if they have one). But if you're somewhere for 3 months as a tourist (or "tourist") and have no local ID/registration, getting insurance that will cover that scenario is not easy. It's possible some travel insurance doesn't have the 1-month-per-trip limit, but all the ones I've seen do.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoIts mainly a "expect to pay a few grand" kind of deal. I had 2 spine surgeries and LASIK done this year. Maybe 300k rupees or about $4000. I could have gone cheaper, but at that price I just figured "why risk it"?