Replying to @altachell Moving abroad with medical conditions sounds riskier than staying in America with medical conditions. That's backwards. American healthcare system is optimized for: denying care, minimizing costs, treating doctors like adversaries who need to prove every test to insurance gatekeepers. International healthcare (most countries): optimized for solving problems, believing patients, chasing diagnoses until answers are found. The bridge period (before you're on local socialized system): use international health insurance + cash-pay private care. Transfer prescriptions to private providers, establish with specialists, get sorted while you wait for public system enrollment (takes 2-6 months depending on country). Private care during this period is more expensive than eventual public care, but still dramatically cheaper than American insurance-based care. And providers are motivated to keep you as a patient, which means: responsive, thorough, actually trying to help. Once you're on socialized medicine: costs drop to nearly zero, quality stays high, access improves further. The fear: "What if I can't get my medications abroad? What if they don't have my specialists?" The reality: Prescriptions transfer (sometimes different brands, same active ingredients). Specialists exist. And doctors abroad actually listen when you describe symptoms instead of treating you like you're faking for pain meds. Moving abroad with medical conditions isn't riskier. Staying in America is. Link in bio for guidance on healthcare transitions when relocating internationally. ๐๐บ๐ธ
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You want to move abroad but you've got medical complications and you need some sort of medical assistance and you're going to definitely need medical help on the other end set up very quickly once you arrive. I do actually have advice for that. So the thing about medical care as you move abroad is that you are typically going to be entitled to be on the public system and that's going to mean that you're going to be part of their socialized medicine program. But that doesn't always kick in right away. Sometimes it's several months until you do get access to that public healthcare. So instead during the transition time you're going to set yourself up with private healthcare and private healthcare is a lot more flexible than public healthcare as you move abroad because you're paying for that system in cash. So you're going to get an international health plan that's going to cover you at public or private hospitals and then you're going to contact those doctors in advance if you have complex medical things that need assistance right away. Contact them with your prescriptions, send over your medical files, make sure you have a place that's already prepared for your arrival. You're going to be using a combination of cash and your international health insurance to bridge that gap until you can get on the public system. What I have found with the medical system in terms of using out in three different continents is that in general they just take your word for it. There's not that level of suspicion that there is in the United States where it's like you must prove and re-prove that you have an issue that we're going to contend with. They just say oh my gosh there's a problem. Let's fix it. So if you say some things in pain they're going to go relentlessly until they figure out what the problem is. So I would say that you don't have to stress too much about like I need this medication. If you tell them you need that medication they're most likely just going to figure out how to get you that medication. I have to check in advance if the medication works there, if it's legal there, if they have access to it there because sometimes they will have different maximum dosages for different medications and you will have to double check the laws in that country that the exact things that you need are even accessible for doctors to prescribe to you. For those of you who don't know me I'm Veronica and five years ago my family moved abroad and we've lived on three different continents. Now I help other Americans figure out where they can go no matter their situation including if you have medical complications. So if this person was my client I would be doing this research for them and figuring out exactly which places they qualify for visas for and their medical issues can be dealt with in that country. I do that kind of back end research so that you don't have to. If you're ready to work with me, the links to do that are in my bio.
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