Can anyone help with travel insurance for a trip to USA. I am terminal with liver and bowel cancer.
Hi chocface and welcome to the community.
A holiday to the USA sounds amazing but as you my be experiencing getting affordable Travel Insurance can be a challenge and at times the price could be higher than the cost of the holiday and some do find that no Insurance is being offered.
I actually had to be 2 years in remission from my incurable blood cancer before I could get any price but these decisions are often down to cancer types, treatment and the resulting risk factor put on by the insurers risk assessment - I am very open to infections so this is a high risk factor for insurers.
Comparison sites tend to use the same algorithms so getting a clear price can be difficult and it’s not that unusual to be turned down or told to call the insurers.
It’s actually more effective to call a few insurers directly as this means that you have answered all the questions correctly and in doing this a suitable policy can be offered and price given.
Full disclosure is always advisable as in the event of you developing any issues this can reduce the risk of an insurance companies wriggling out from paying out.
Do have a look through the 'recommended travel insurance' thread and this New Thread in our Travel insurance group as it's where the majority of recommendations from other forum members are. You can also look through all the individual members posts in the group as well.
I do hope you can find cover.
Fir some reason on some of the discussion threads in the groups the oldest posts come first, go to the bottom of that page of posts and hit the double >> and this will take you to the newest posts…… but on the whole nothing much has changed over these years although some COVID information has been added.
