Posted on 12/11/2024 6:12:44 PM PST by Morgana
A British grandma with a slew of health issues fell seriously-ill during a dream holiday to Disney World but is trapped in the US after failing to pay for travel insurance.
Patricia Bunting, 76, had saved for the last two years to accompany her grandson and her two sons to Walt Disney World in The Sunshine State.
Aware that her declining health would soon mean no more trips back to her beloved United States, she wanted to return to her 'happy place'.
Bunting currently uses three different inhalers to ease her breathing difficulties which is caused by a chronic pulmonary disease, and she relies on a walker.
On her 20 previous trips to the US she had purchased travel insurance. But this time couldn't afford the $3,000 cost quoted due to her severe health issues, a decision that would prove to be a terrible mistake.
After making the ten hour flight from her home in the UK in late October, she enjoyed three weeks in the sun before complaining of exhaustion on November 23.
The family had been set to return five days later, but had to rush Bunting to Orlando's Dr. P. Phillips Hospital after she was found passed out in the bathroom.
She spent the next five days in intensive care with Covid and then pneumonia, having refused to be intubated over fear she would not wake up.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
She is now on the path to citizenship and likely to have a US income of roughly $60,000 this year, including benefits.
“She spent the next five days in intensive care with Covid and then pneumonia, having refused to be intubated over fear she would not wake up.”
Smart woman. They would have killed her.
Medicare won’t pay if I get sick in Italy.
I think the NHS would have paid if she got sick at the Disneyland near Paris.
Despite its name, the GHIC is just for most of Europe.
The British are trying to expand its area of useability.
If it had been Canaduh, Castreau would have offered her MAiD (Medical Assistance in Death). What a compassionate Crime Minister is our Castreau!
She would have been offed well before this if she was in the UK and this occurred.
Well may God bless this sick woman and heal her quickly. I had a more snarky response but it’s the holiday season.
“Me llamo Maria. Asylum por favor “
She’ll get to the head of the line and get it free.
Yes, they would gladly have drowned her on a ventilator.
Time for a go fund me or a give send go, methinks!
I hope this lady can recover and return home.
Sentiment momentarily aside, this woman should never have made the trip here from Britain, as sick as she very obviously is. If she insisted on coming, she should have gotten that 3K for travel insurance.
When it comes to protecting what remains of your health ‘love for her family’ is not going to pay those bills. The family, seeing that she would not listen to reason, should have made other plans, so she would not have felt compelled to follow them.
Just one layman’s look at her, tells you she’s quite unwell.
Be glad she didn’t go to Mexico for any reason. They would be on the phone to her English family, demanding a cranked up, extortion/ ransom kind of bill be paid asap, OR ELSE!!
NHS won’t pay.
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/usa/health
The important part...
“...Healthcare in the US
Medical treatment is expensive and there are no special arrangements for British visitors.
Some hospitals ask non-US residents to pay a deposit when admitted. Send any requests for funds to your travel insurance provider first; only pay the hospital if you’re advised to do so by your travel insurance company. Your medical care will not be affected while your claim is processed.
Medical facilities in American Samoa are basic and you may need medical evacuation by air ambulance to Hawaii, New Zealand or Australia.
Make sure you have adequate travel health insurance and accessible funds to cover the cost of any medical treatment abroad and repatriation....”
She should have been denied entry. I have traveled to numerous countries a d almost all require proof you can cover medical expenses.
It sounds like to me that she traveled to the US knowing that she would be treated here. If she would have stayed in Britain, they would have put her on a six month or longer waiting list and she would have died before she made it the hospital.
Do hospitals in Florida use HCQ and Ivermectin?
Go Fund Me account has been active for the whole five weeks she has been in the hospital and they have only raised about half of what they need to fly mother home. Latest update yesterday indicated little improvement in her condition. Even if the rest of the money they need showed up tomorrow she is still in no condition to leave the hospital let alone fly back home.
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