How Much is Your Life Worth?
I recently read an excerpt online about a person that was traveling on business in a Third World County when he had a heart attack. He was taken to a local hospital and he realized that he was in trouble when they put him on sheets covered with someone else's dried blood!
This is not how most of us envision a future trip. Whether it be for business or for pleasure does not matter. International travel can be both exciting and potentially devastating, not to mention turning into a financial nightmare. Even domestic travel can turn into a heartache when something goes wrong and you or a loved one are stranded away from home.
Travelling on business is difficult enough when you consider the time spent away from family and loved ones. It can also be both exciting and lucrative, making deals at the far corners of the earth. The lifestyle can be demanding and flights, meetings and hotels are on your agenda. Places like Europe and Asia offer many business opportunities, but are thousands of miles from home. If you are travelling alone and have an accident or medical emergency, are you comfortable to accept possibly lifesaving medical care and recovery in a foreign land, where you know no one, and know nothing about the level of medical care that you may receive? Did you know that a medical transfer from Europe to a hospital near you will cost about $70,000 today? Were you aware that the same medical transfer from Asia will cost around $130,000!
If you travel on business and work for a corporation, will they pay that amount of money to get you home? If you travel on business for yourself, can you afford to spend that much?
Taking a cruise can be a fun and relaxing way to take a vacation. It is estimated that over 20 million people go on cruises worldwide every year. The ships are out on the water and away from hospitals during most of the time that you are on-board, which is what makes this type of travel so appealing. But what happens when someone has an accident or medical emergency that is more than the ship's doctor can handle? What happens if a passenger requires surgery or advanced care from doctor's that they know and trust? Who pays for that?
African Safaris have become very popular vacation destinations in recent years. There are unspoiled natural habitats to see, plenty of native animals and a world away from smart phones and texting. This environment is often far from modern civilization which adds to the mystique of travelling there. However, there can be malaria and yellow fever, and injuries from travelling in rugged terrain, not to mention medical emergencies that are always a possibility. Where is the nearest state of the art medical facility when you are out in the jungle? What would it cost to get transported to a hospital close to where you live? Probably more than you could imagine!
Adventure travel is also very popular and may lead people to exciting places and challenging activities all over the country and to all places around the globe. As the name implies, adventure travel generally involves some level of risk, which is what makes it so exciting. Risk greatly increases the chance of injury, and with injury comes desperation. Being stranded with a bad injury, hundreds or thousands of miles from proper medical care (home and loved ones too!), can be tragic. Not to mention financially devastating!
Even closer to home, so many people love to ski, to snowboard, to ride motorcycles and other exciting pastimes for fun and relaxation. Flying down a snow covered slope, passing trees and braving the frigid temperatures is both exciting and adventuresome. Rounding the bend of a beautiful mountain road at highways speeds with just 2 wheels, a big engine and you can make life worth living. When all goes well, life is good. When tragedy strikes from an unexpected injury, your future can look bleak at best.
Remember, it only takes a moment to change the time of your life into the lowest point in your life.
There are only two things that matter to you at the point of tragedy:
1) Proper medical care close to your home and loved ones
2) Someone to pay for it so you are not financially ruined
So how much is your life worth? Everything. How much would it cost to protect it? Click below and find out. You going to wonder why you never did this before!
Travelling on business is difficult enough when you consider the time spent away from family and loved ones. It can also be both exciting and lucrative, making deals at the far corners of the earth. The lifestyle can be demanding and flights, meetings and hotels are on your agenda. Places like Europe and Asia offer many business opportunities, but are thousands of miles from home. If you are travelling alone and have an accident or medical emergency, are you comfortable to accept possibly lifesaving medical care and recovery in a foreign land, where you know no one, and know nothing about the level of medical care that you may receive? Did you know that a medical transfer from Europe to a hospital near you will cost about $70,000 today? Were you aware that the same medical transfer from Asia will cost around $130,000!
If you travel on business and work for a corporation, will they pay that amount of money to get you home? If you travel on business for yourself, can you afford to spend that much?
Taking a cruise can be a fun and relaxing way to take a vacation. It is estimated that over 20 million people go on cruises worldwide every year. The ships are out on the water and away from hospitals during most of the time that you are on-board, which is what makes this type of travel so appealing. But what happens when someone has an accident or medical emergency that is more than the ship's doctor can handle? What happens if a passenger requires surgery or advanced care from doctor's that they know and trust? Who pays for that?
African Safaris have become very popular vacation destinations in recent years. There are unspoiled natural habitats to see, plenty of native animals and a world away from smart phones and texting. This environment is often far from modern civilization which adds to the mystique of travelling there. However, there can be malaria and yellow fever, and injuries from travelling in rugged terrain, not to mention medical emergencies that are always a possibility. Where is the nearest state of the art medical facility when you are out in the jungle? What would it cost to get transported to a hospital close to where you live? Probably more than you could imagine!
Adventure travel is also very popular and may lead people to exciting places and challenging activities all over the country and to all places around the globe. As the name implies, adventure travel generally involves some level of risk, which is what makes it so exciting. Risk greatly increases the chance of injury, and with injury comes desperation. Being stranded with a bad injury, hundreds or thousands of miles from proper medical care (home and loved ones too!), can be tragic. Not to mention financially devastating!
Even closer to home, so many people love to ski, to snowboard, to ride motorcycles and other exciting pastimes for fun and relaxation. Flying down a snow covered slope, passing trees and braving the frigid temperatures is both exciting and adventuresome. Rounding the bend of a beautiful mountain road at highways speeds with just 2 wheels, a big engine and you can make life worth living. When all goes well, life is good. When tragedy strikes from an unexpected injury, your future can look bleak at best.
Remember, it only takes a moment to change the time of your life into the lowest point in your life.
There are only two things that matter to you at the point of tragedy:
1) Proper medical care close to your home and loved ones
2) Someone to pay for it so you are not financially ruined
So how much is your life worth? Everything. How much would it cost to protect it? Click below and find out. You going to wonder why you never did this before!
