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<blockquote data-quote="Sid Bonkers" data-source="post: 142080" data-attributes="member: 19121"><p>That is exactly what the uncle of my sons friend thought when he went to the Philippines, where unfortunately he was hit by a drunken driver, after several operations there he had to by flown home for more operations here and is now paralysed from the neck down. His family had to sell their house and do all sorts of benefit/charity type things to pay his bills.</p><p></p><p>Now I know you would get free hospital treatment in the EU but what if you had to be brought back to the UK with nurses and doctors in attendance or worse still if your next of kin had to find the thousands of £'s to repatriate your body should the unthinkable happen, neither of those scenarios are covered by an EU health card as far as I know.</p><p></p><p>You might want to read this link. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/740629/The-last-journey.html" target="_blank">About 4,000 Britons die abroad each year</a> Accidents do happen.</p><p></p><p>Pay for the insurance would be my advice, and hope you don't need it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sid Bonkers, post: 142080, member: 19121"] That is exactly what the uncle of my sons friend thought when he went to the Philippines, where unfortunately he was hit by a drunken driver, after several operations there he had to by flown home for more operations here and is now paralysed from the neck down. His family had to sell their house and do all sorts of benefit/charity type things to pay his bills. Now I know you would get free hospital treatment in the EU but what if you had to be brought back to the UK with nurses and doctors in attendance or worse still if your next of kin had to find the thousands of £'s to repatriate your body should the unthinkable happen, neither of those scenarios are covered by an EU health card as far as I know. You might want to read this link. [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/740629/The-last-journey.html]About 4,000 Britons die abroad each year[/url] Accidents do happen. Pay for the insurance would be my advice, and hope you don't need it. [/QUOTE]
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