You show your EHIC card at the hospital

>>2751226
Here is how it works: you buy travelers health insurance, you get hurt or sick abroad. You pay out of pocket to the hospital because they don't accept insurance from foreigners, then you take your receipts and file a claim with your insurance.

Then they demand extra paperwork you don't have and can't get because you aren't in the country anymore and the hospital won't do shit for you or is impossible to talk to. Your insurance then fucks with you for months, and finally denies your claim and tells you tough shit.

You consider grabbing your rifle and going to kill a few of those faggots, then you realize it's not worth it, and you learned a hard but valuable lesson about how the world actually works.

Next time you get hurt abroad you instead get just enough treatment to make it back to your country of origin where you can get proper medical treatment that is covered by your NHS or insurance, or that you can scam your way out of paying by niggermaxxing.

Let's say you don't want to go back?

Well you can also scam foreign hospitals in dire circumstances by getting life saving treatment, and either 1) giving up your passport to them with a promise to come back with the money (just claim it was stolen to your embassy)

2) take out a bunch of money suddenly from the atm and then call and tell your bank you were robbed and extorted at an ATM (50/50 on this working and getting your money back. They might want police report)

3) act delirious but remain cognizant that you have been patched up enough to leave. Wait till the middle of the night then walk out and take a taxi back to your hotel. Security might body block you but if you aren't that sick or injured you can do what you need to do to get out.

Italian healthcare was impressive. I had appendicitis and hobbled into a bar asking if call a cab with my broken Italian saying I was in pain. Barkeep called for an ambulance instead.

Got taken to the hospital in La Spezia and put on antibiotics by IV for about 3 days. I paid maybe 40 euros for what I could only assume was the cost of the antibiotics.

No insurance, american.

>>2751226
you pay it in cash, socialism scum

>>2751226
My gf got a UTI in Germany and we got antibiotics fine. People were very nice. Only annoying part was COVID procedures

I got run over by a car in Cyprus. Hit and run. Dirty Bangladeshi immigrant. I was in intensive care one night, and about 5 days in the hospital. The nurses were angels. When i told them i had no money they just whispered to me to just leave, I won't get caught

Much like in the US, payment is very much on the honor system. If you're broke, you just don't pay and most likely, nobody will care.

You're gonna be stabilized in any semi developed country in an emergency. This includes the US.

>>2751275
If you don't pay you'll likely be denied entry into this country in the future.

>>2751275
Other countries' hospitals don't take your stuff and leave you naked in a hospital gown? Gonna be tough getting anywhere without your shoes, wallet and ATM card, let alone your passport if you were carrying it.
>>2751232
I've heard that medevac coverage is the main reason to buy travel insurance, provided of course that you have healthcare coverage in your home country.

>>2751226
This depends a lot where you are
If you’re in Europe you’ll be fine, they’ll just send you the bill after treatment

>>2751232
yes if you live in some shithole
never had insurance claim denied (claim was in Asia, insurance in Europe), usually it's approved automatically in a couple of days
better hospitals contact and bill insurance company directly