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Health Care
Expatriates and other frequent international
travellers have special needs for health-care
and related insurance services, and a substantial
industry has sprung up to satisfy them.
The list of places you may be sent - or even
choose to go - gets longer every day, ranging
from fully civilized and safe places like Paris
to really scary and hostile regions such as Iraq
and Afganistan.
Now your company may have taken out a policy
on your behalf. If so, lucky you! There are in
fact still many companies that do recognise the
importance of insuring all of their travelling
employees.
Of course, the levels of benefit offered may
not seem high enough for you, so you may want
to supplement such mandatory cover where it exists.
Whether you are completely on your own, or supplementing
your employer's cover, you can take advantage
of a multitude of international brokers and insurers,
and nowadays of course you can obtain cover through
the Internet wherever you are.
The bottom line is that whether you are looking
for private health and life insurance, or whether
you are lucky enough to have found a forward thinking
employer who is willing to include insurance as
part of your benefits package (and remember, the
time to negotiate this is before you go away,
rather than when you actually need it several
years down the line), international insurance
is undoubtedly the most appropriate option for
international travellers.
Although it is possible to insure yourself, your
family and your property against almost every
eventuality, in this section we will focus on
the two main areas of concern for those with financial
obligations and responsibility for dependants
- health and life insurance.
International insurance brokers will usually
offer a wide variety of policies to suit the needs
and pockets of most expats, including international
medical insurance, travel protection plans, single
and multi-trip policies, annually renewable international
plans, and group plans from a variety of providers,
with a wide range of online tools to help you
choose the most appropriate one.
There is a great deal of helpful material on
heath-care in investorsoffshore, and for that
matter on our other sites as well, so here are
some links to relevant parts of our own and other
sites:
Health-Care and Insurance
The
InvestorsOffshore Guide To Health And Life For
Expats is an extensive study of the health-care
and insurance needs of expatriates and the services
that exist to satisfy them.
Expatexpert.com
offers a range of information and advice, for
international expatriates, covering areas of expat
life such as careers, repatriation and family
life.
The InvestorsOffshore Jurisdiction
Focus section includes in-depth guides to
expat life in key offshore destinations such as
Cyprus, Jersey, Singapore, Hong Kong, Labuan,
Barbados and Panama.
Offshore Health-Care Providers
The
Investorsoffshore Health-Care Providers Plaza
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