Heading for England.

Hey, if you're ever in the Sunderland area next Spring, let me know and maybe we can unite as foreigners and figure out what in the world we need to do. The main advice that the people at the International Center gave me was to call the health insurance company and ask them if their policy will cover me overseas (and if so, how and at what cost). If not, you may want to consider either seeing if they have a way to expand your insurance in order to get international coverage (which may cost a lot) or find a new company in England. I am required to purchase college health insurance along with my current policy this year, so I am set to go since the college policy covers international incidents (even though I have to pay the upfront costs first, then they reimburse me).

However, I thought England had universal health care, or does that not cover international students or people? From the British buddies I've talked to here and on IM's, you can get tanked when you're 18, so you should be perfectly legal. Do you know what part of England you're moving to?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by xuemin

the healthcare is free, but i found an old article about it:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publi...114226,00.html

In that article, I read something that said:

Quote:

Overseas students to be exempt from charges.

Does this mean if someone from North America--who is studying abroad for 5 months at a British school--gets injured, then they can get free healthcare still?

There's nowhere I can't reach.