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!
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.
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....”
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.