In Reply to: The importance of travel Insurance posted by Geri on Sunday, 26. October 2008 at 20:15 Bali Time:
and I totally agree with you about Travel Insurance. I have actually have people mention to me that because of the drop in the AUD$ they will forgo travel insurance because they don't really need it and would rather put the money towards their trip.
I shudder when I hear that - I know of a family whose son broke his leg in America and without insurance they would have lost their house due to the cost of hospital care and getting him home.
A girl at work had a friend who had to fly their father home after he passed away in Bali from a heart attack - the cost of that was a mortgagte on a house - thankfully they all had insurance but imagine what would have happened if, for the sake of a couple of hundred dollars, they didn't take the insurance.
It's just simply not worth the risk.
If you can't afford the travel insurance then don't travel.