Another day, another non bargain related question…or 2.
Perth man’s Bali holiday turns to horror after brutal mugging incident
Interested in people's opinion regarding holidays and travel insurance. I see various posts and news articles about people that have travelled overseas and end up in hospital with $$$ expenses and starting go fund me pages and donation drives. The articles never mention travel insurance and it always makes me annoyed. Does nobody else sit there thinking 'you got yourself into this mess'?
Why would people support someone else's bad decisions to not get travel insurance? If they end up with debt, wouldn't that be a good life lesson? Maybe the people donating are just kinder than me.
Do you think travel insurance should always be purchased? International or domestic too?
I feel like the people without insurance that I see in these situations (obviously not the whole cohort) all seem to visit Bali, Vietnam and south east Asian countries.
Is it a certain kind of person that doesn't think, have responsibilities and doesn't consider the risks or am I unfairly labelling them all together as immature, impulsive?
If you can't get insurance due to medical etc that's understandable, still travel. But otherwise should insurance be a prerequisite for visiting certain or all countries?
Anyone got any crazy stories about insurance costs or situations?
Interesting idea. I think in general lessons are learnt moreso through adversity and suffering. Not that I'm saying I want anyone to suffer.