{"id":23107,"date":"2012-05-14T21:33:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T01:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=14706"},"modified":"2016-09-18T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-18T08:42:22","slug":"dont-forget-your-supplemental-medical-coverage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/dont-forget-your-supplemental-medical-coverage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget Your Supplemental Medical Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just heading for bed when I remembered that my supplemental medical coverage expires tomorrow! I know that you can&#8217;t buy the coverage if you have already left the country, but couldn&#8217;t imagine them refusing to extend coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Even though it was 9PM, I dialed the toll free number and after a five minute wait, I got a live person. He confirmed that I would not have been able to buy initial from the States (the phone system knows where you&#8217;re calling from and the web server can trace the IP) but since I still had a current policy, they could create a new one for me even though I&#8217;m in the States. I have no idea why they could not extend the existing one, but whatever.<\/p>\n<p>I am now covered up to and including Friday and, yes, I will be submitting that amount ($23.20 or $7.73 per day) to the moron&#8217;s insurance company.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious, I use CIBC travel insurance (underwritten by the Co-Operators), and have done so for years. It&#8217;s a little more expensive than Blue Cross (by about 10%), but I can order it through the CIBC website and have the amount taken directly from my chequing account, so it&#8217;s more convenient for me. The cost for 27 days was $91.26 or $3.38 per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just heading for bed when I remembered that my supplemental medical coverage expires tomorrow! I know that you can&#8217;t buy the coverage if you have already left the country, but couldn&#8217;t imagine them refusing to extend coverage. Even though it was 9PM, I dialed the toll free number and after a five minute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[936,635,5,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalities","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}