Medical Care while Traveling

After hearing and reading....and observing stories of travelers who need medical care outside of their hometown area, I strongly recommend travel insurance. Take into consideration your travel companions - family of any ages, and imagine a sprained ankle, or appendicitis on a cruise ship or foreign country. Cruise ships are fabulous at taking care of passengers, but they cannot perform emergency surgery or other complex medical procedures. And worse yet, all you have to do is to read passenger entries on some travel sites about the medical care in some socialized medicine countries. Do not take it for granted, and don’t believe the pie in the sky about getting great and immediate medical care with socialized medicine. Read what people have experienced.