Hi All..!! This is a good topic to discuss for sure... as medical costs and insurance is a very HOT topic here in the states too... I firmly believe there is no "Utopia"... It seems to me, regardless of the country, those with the money get the best and fastest care... the rest of us try to do the best we can.. and this is where insurance comes in...

Costs.. now this is the meat of the subject... but getting medical coverage while traveling is NOT really expensive... more like a set of race tyres... but then all these costs add up..!

OK, I suspect that both the TT and MGP folks have already looked at getting a "Group" / Term insurance policy.. Such a policy may not be availble there.. I do not know. I suspect it would be somewhat cheaper if there was such a policy available there... Here in the states, any group can get a group rate... then offer the discount to the people in the group... in this case the riders... Seems like having additional coverage available at a lower cost should also benefit situations where a specialist needs to be brought in or the patient sent to the specialist... Yes that would potentially increase the cost for everyone, but I think the peace of mind alone would be worth it..!

Hope to see you all in August..!!!! Stay well... or get well in some cases...

Cheers..!!!

Ron

(15-03-2011, 03:20 PM)Carole Wrote:

(12-03-2011, 07:59 PM)cregnybaa Wrote: I would have thought the health service on the IOM would have a duty to look after their own to give them the best care available and to get them back to as normal as is possible they reputedly made 9 millon out of the TT last year, what is needed here is a drop in the ocean out of that.

I find it so difficult to understand the reasoning behind refusal of funds for nescessary treatment of young injured riders such as Tim, but we hear everyday of very expensive ops on those well into their eighties or nineties. Of course I am not suggesting for one minute that the Seniors should be refused those ops, but rather that those with their whole future ahead of them be afforded the same consideration, withough having to beg.
Tim is only 22, and deserves every bit of help, in a timely manner that he can get, without funding having to come into it- and he need it now.

Meantime his Family have the unenviable task of an uphill struggle to raise those funds, on top of an already very stressful and upsetting time. Lesser families would have given up by now, so I am in awe of them.

We have been so very lucky that Olie has received good care, and is well on his way to recovery, and are saddened that Tim has not been so lucky.