You
can get a full year of health insurance other places for less than one month’s
of California’s low-budget plan. Local insurance
in Panama runs about $100/month. Uruguay
reportedly has plans cheaper than that.
Mexico runs under $500 a year!
All-inclusive, no copays.
You
can obtain international traveler’s insurance, which includes coverage in the
US, for about $300/month. And it’s
better than California’s cheapskate coverage.
So
now a reader reports to an expat newsletter that she received a letter from her
state’s senator, Sen. Nelson, stating that all US taxpayers, including
non-residents and expats, are required to obtain health insurance or pay the
tax for being uninsured. Despite the
fact that US insurance policies are worthless in foreign countries!
Errant
nonsense! US Congress has totally run
off the rails here. If you are
reasonably healthy, your total medical bills for a year can run less than a
month's premium for the far superior insurance plans available in many countries.
What
a bummer! Worse, not even Senators and
Representatives have read their own healthcare bill. According to that, non-resident US citizens
are supposedly exempt from US Obamacare requirements.
Be
careful! Study the law, and study the
regulations. Or find a Legal-Eagle
expert to sort out this mess. Alas (or
thank goodness?!), I am not an attorney.
I do my homework, do the best I can finding sources, but it seems even
the law as enacted might not be the final word.
May your road rise to meet you!
Ann
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