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Well isn't the baby automatically a Mexican citizen entitled to all the benefits and "free" health care that Mexico's taxpayers can cough up...that's how it works here...
Well isn't the baby automatically a Mexican citizen entitled to all the benefits and "free" health care that Mexico's taxpayers can cough up...that's how it works here...
oh wait...
She went to a private hospital in Cancun for foreigners. Which - as you can see here by the result - has great health care but isn't free. They are american educated doctors, who don't come cheap anywhere. The should have bought travel insurance, its available.
A desperate father has appealed for help after his wife gave birth three months prematurely while on holiday in Mexico and his insurance refused to cover it.
Jeremy Stewart, from California, told how he was on holiday with wife Maggie and three-year-old daughter Neri in Cancun ahead of the arrival of their second child.
But while on vacation Maggie contracted a uterus infection and was told she needed an emergency C-section or both she and the baby risked dying.
There was a recent thread on a woman not allowed to board a cruise ship because she was 24 weeks pregnant and was upset about it. The woman in this story did make it to Mexico and now can't leave until she pays her medical bills and her insurance won't cover it. The article said she gave birth three months early, but I'm not seeing where she was in weeks. It seems really iffy to get away to get too far from home particularly in another country.
Did you read somewhere that they hadn't had the insurance for a long enough period?
I am assuming that if the insurer denied coverage, there is a reason spelled out in plain language in the policy. Which, of course, none of us here has read. Unless you have read the policy, and can assure us that the coverage was in force for nine months and that the plan covers medical expenses incurred outside the USA, and that there was no other specified reason in the policy to deny coverage.
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Originally Posted by phantompilot
Well isn't the baby automatically a Mexican citizen entitled to all the benefits and "free" health care that Mexico's taxpayers can cough up...that's how it works here...
oh wait...
Mexico's "free" health coverage requires enrollment and a small premium (like US Medicare), I don';t think it is fully universal yet. In any case, it would only cover the medical needs of the baby, not the uninsured non-Mexican mother.
If your insurance company (not named in the article, BTW) doesn't cover health care abroad, you SHOULD NOT BE GOING ABROAD.
Surely when she contacted her doctor for advice on whether to travel at 6 months pregnant and with a small child, the doctor's office might have said oh btw, you won't have any health care whatsoever while you're there.
Anyway, alls well that ends well, they have 100 grand to show for it from GoFundMe.
Doctors, nurses and their desk people have no clue at all as to what is and isn't covered by a patient's health insurance. It's the responsibility of the insured to call up their insurance company to check on their coverage.
Doctors and nurses are only about treating a patient and only make notes in a patient medical treatment record. They aren't involved in the billing paperwork.
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(Just giving you a hard time. I knew what you meant.)
