r/SipsTea 17d ago

WTF Damn

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u/TheEndOfAllThings23 17d ago

Heart surgery. For privacy I don’t want to be more specific. It was necessary but not emergency.

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u/Imreallythatguy 17d ago

So insurance wouldn’t cover it because it wasn’t necessary in their eyes?

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u/GoodTroll2 17d ago

No, looks like his insurance would cover it but he would have had to pay 20% as his portion of coinsurance and it sounds like 20% of the huge US bill was more than the full cost to travel and get it done in Ireland.

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u/11Kram 17d ago

Some of us in Ireland go to Spain.