Both Hospitals Often Full; Major Hospital Renovation / Expansion on Dutch Side Long Overdue An article in the St. Maarten Daily Herald pointed out something we didnt know: that both hospitals on the island are often full, not a good thing when the island is so well populated and when its population swells by many thousands every high season. As we reported, there are plans for a major renovation and expansion of the St. Maarten medical center. In addition, there continues to be talk about an American clinic which may be located near the Royal Palm complex on Kim Sha beach in Simpson Bay. The problem is that none of these facilities will accept any American or Canadian healthcare plans, including government plans, for payment if you become ill or injured on the island. Thats one of the reasons we have long suggested SkyMed medical evacuation plans for visiting Americans and Canadians. If you travel infrequently, these plans will cost under nine dollars a day per person, maximum $18 per day. Even their best plan, the SkyMed Ultimate, costs only $59 per month for its five-year term. There are three huge advantages to SkyMed plans versus any others. First, SkyMed takes you home when you become critically ill or injured when traveling. In their fine print, virtually all of the other plans promise to take you home or to the nearest appropriate facility at their discretion, which means you could wind up in San Juan — which makes no sense at all if youre from Seattle, Springfield, Saugerties, or Saskatchewan. SkyMed takes you home — what else matters? Second, if you have a SkyMed annual or Ultimate plan, that plan will never become more expensive simply because your health declines or your age advances. SkyMed doesnt plays those games. Once youre a member, your a member as long as you continue to pay your membership fee regardless of what happens to your health or advancing age. Third, Jeff Berger has been selling SkyMed to readers of this newsletter and to JMB Website Supporters members for about 12 years. He has sold somewhere in the vicinity of 2000 memberships and a few dozen of the people who have bought have required emergency medical evacuation home, which is a significant number. Without SkyMed, those people would have been required to pay upwards of $45,000 in advance, in cash, in order to get medical evacuation in an emergency, if they could do so. No $45,000 cash in advance — no emergency medical evacuation jet home. SkyMed pays for everything related to your evacuation. All members have to do is make one toll-free telephone call to SkyMed and SkyMed makes all the arrangements and takes care of and pays for all the details of the evacuation. If you still dont have SkyMed, see the article about it and dont wait any longer. Its time to protect yourself and get the peace of mind that having SkyMed will bring you. -- From this coming weeks SXM Weekly News. For more on SkyMed, see skymed/jmbsxm
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:31:31 +0000