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3 options to get medical care
January 22, 2012 | 
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Regardless of having health insurance or not, at different times of life we had to visit a public health center for an emergency, treat a cold wrong, get a prescription or ask for time off work. But what happens in case of more serious illness or if required an operation?
If necessary, we have 3 options to get necessary medical assistance:
* Being treated at the Hospital touches you Public Health (Social Security).
* If you have a Health Care Health Insurance, we can choose between several hospitals in the medical chart.
* Find a private hospital to give us more confidence.
Since this is health care, given the time, it is preferable to have all options to explore before having to stay with the Read the rest of this entry »
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Pandemics and medical insurance
Two news items that appeared recently in the media make us reflect on the medical insurance coverage in the current case of Influenza A:
1. The World Health Organization has risen to 6 (maximum scale) the level of alert for the flu, but said that it is “a moderate pandemic” globally.
2. Chinese insurers will support the medical expenses of the swine flu
Considering that insurance exclusions from the policy are excluded from health ‘epidemics and officially declared disaster’, and certainly when we hired our swine flu insurance did not exist … the reflection is clear: Does our an unforeseen health policy to the current alert level of the flu?
A few days ago, various Chinese health insurers have given notice that it will cover the medical expenses for its clients in connection with the swine flu. In these times when fears are rising around the world about pandemics and Read the rest of this entry »