pavlova that headstrong young adult will need to be told the situation and accept it. They cannot bankrupt you for a holiday.
That's my ideal world but young adults are not known to be the best decision makers ............ That's why I strongly believe it should be a universal rule that you are not allowed into another country unless that country has a reciprocal health agreement with your country OR you have appropriate travel insurance. It would solve the issue of people not being able to make good decisions, especially young adults who I would suspect would be the greatest group of offenders.
It makes me angry when I see these saps begging for help to get sick relatives home when they don’t take out travel insurance. It’s a must for me.
Then you read someone wants others to dig deep to pay for there relative to get home because they can’t afford it! Well you could afford the flight to USA so you should have afforded the insurance. Maybe these relatives could sell stuff to raise the money and not go begging
Fuck me.
Yes, rationale people recognise that appropriate insurance is a must. In some circumstances 'rational' goes out the window though, especially when we are not talking about insurance premiums that can be considerably more than several thousand dollars.
At present I am lucky in that I can control my child, as I said above we can't afford the premium for them so we don't travel. Simple.
I can't control them forever and headstrong young adults are not known to be great decision makers. One day I may well be that sap begging for help. Not through any fault of my own or anything within my control but I dare you to find any normal parent who will do nothing in the event they need to pay for their adult child's medical costs in a foreign country when it goes arse up or to bring their body home. In that event I would ask for help and be grateful that anyone familiar with our situation would assist if they could. Would I expect anyone to, no of course not. But in that situation I imagine you would be desperate and pride goes out the window. I don't think selling a few things on eBay would cut it and if you don't think people in that situation are willing to sell their house etc you are deluded. I imagine most of the initial desperation, what you term begging, is due to emergency time constraints.
There is actually have a sad case in the news at the moment. It would appear a young guy went overseas, had an accident on a bike and was critically injured. He had travel insurance so it was initially assumed everything was in order but he was riding without an international drivers license thus the policy was voided due to fine print in that regard. Again, young people don't always think and it probably never occurred to him. There was crowd funding for huge initial medical costs and to have him medically evacuated home for continuing medical care. Unfortunately he did not end up making it. I would certainly never judge his family/friends as begging saps as you so kindly put it.