International Health Insurance Comparisons

There are many companies offering insurance packages for people living all over the world. You will have heard of nearly all of the big players in the market, here I am going to go through some of the most high profile names in this sector just to compare and contrast the basics that are offered in each case.

Aetna Global Benefitsare an american firm which specialises in insurance for expatriates, but that doesn't mean that other nationalities are excluded. The main areas of concentration are in Asia and the near East, and they have access to a large number of hospitals throughout that area.

AXA-PPP International Health Insurance are the result of the merger between the French insurance firm AXA, and the British insurers Guardian Royal Exchange. But as AXA are a truly international company they do not concentrate on any single part of the world having partnerships in the Americas, Africa and Asia, with their own network of partnerships with private hospitals and physicians throughout the world.

Bupa International are one of the best known private health insurers in the UK, but have only recently started to expand majorly into the far east. They too have partnerships in North America and in most of Europe, with specialist clinics etc.

Medicare International are a young British Insurance company who do not simply specialise in expatriate health insurance, they have set out to become a global insurer, offering insurance to all nationalities globally.

This list is not, by any means, exhaustive, and with a lot more research I could probably have unearthed some international brands from non-english speaking countries, but then I might not have been able to translate them very well.

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