Posted by janedant
on Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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By Darlene Kaitlin
If you are planning to settle abroad, you need to also take a good look at your expat health insurance policy. Travelling overseas can be full of adventure and it can happen that you decide to pack your bags and move into a new place for the purpose of settlement outside own country. Since travelling abroad and starting to live there means coming across different climactic conditions and physical surroundings, you need to extra care of your health.
Adventure also means increased chances of events that may affect your health adversely at times. You may encounter a whole new set of issues that your body may take time to accommodate. And in case, any accidents occur and hospitalisation is required, the bills in a foreign place can come as a bad surprise. And before the medical bills deliver a knockout punch, you need to fight back with pre-protection, that is with a health care policy in place.
This is often the best option specially designed keeping in mind situations like this, and the people who would need to avail to it to ensure good health. Even if, by good grace, you do not come to require medical assistance, it will always serve to give you a peace of mind that you will be safe with proper medical care, no matter where you are.
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Posted by janedant
on Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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The minister of employment for Bahrain has expressed concern that many Gulf states may be transformed in years to come as the number of expats living and working in the region continues to grow.
Speaking to UAE daily Gulf News on the sidelines of a labour conference in the country's capital Abu Dhabi, Majeed al-Alawi said that while the region has long been reliant on skilled foreign workers to fuel growth, there may be problems during period of economic contraction.
"Whoever thinks this foreign manpower in the region comes for a project and leaves on its completion is wrong. They come to stay," he said, adding that with more expats buying property in the region and acquiring stakes in domestic companies, there may be a marked shift in the economic and social constitution of Gulf states within a generation.
Expats considering a move to the region may benefit from taking out an expat health insurance policy to ensure there are no gaps in cover should healthcare services be required.
Posted by janedant
on Monday, February 1, 2010
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Expat Health Insurance – You insure the house without hesitation; you insure the car too, so why do so many expats refuse to insure their own health?
Maybe you are perfectly fit and healthy, never been ill apart from the odd hang over or two, and besides somewhere in your wallet there is a plastic card with some foreign writing that your boss gave you assuring you it covers you in the event of being sick! Or does it?
The vast majority of us enjoy good health everyday of our working lives and any thoughts of illness or injury seldom stir the back of our minds. The reality is that we are all vulnerable and the prospect of becoming ill or damaging limbs is not as unlikely as we would care to imagine. Visiting the busy urban areas of Asian cities we have all seen the motorcycles with 3 passengers weaving amongst the traffic, normally loaded with a few live chickens and a full size colour television and driven by the ten year old daughter with her left arm pressed against her ear listening to her friends gossip on the latest mobile phone-and then the inevitable coming together with another motorcycle or expatriate who thought the traffic lights actually meant something!
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