FOX: A retired Idaho school teacher who claims a Mexican hospital is holding her hostage will be released on Friday on condition she pay the remainder of her $40,000 medical bill, according to her family.
Vikki Moormann, a former English teacher at Coeur d’Alene High School in Idaho, was vacationing in the Mexican coastal city of Nuevo Vallarta with her sister-in-law in late April when she began vomiting uncontrollably.
After checking into the Hospital San Javier Riviera Nayarit, she was told by doctors that she had a urinary tract infection and was on the brink of pneumonia – a diagnosis that seemed strange to Moormann, who said that aside from her stomach issues she felt fine. She was later diagnosed with Ketoacidosis and placed into a medically induced coma so that doctors could use an intubation tube to treat her condition, according to her family. MORE
Now, wait a minute. You can’t get free or even deeply discounted medical treatment in Mexico if you are a foreigner? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Dear God, what fookin balls. Thats appalling. thats almost achieves “liberal politician” level of treatment.
You do NOT wanna get sick in Mexico. My father-in-law fell ill while vacationing in Cabo. The medical care was beyond shoddy. He nearly died — the only way we could save him was to charter a medical flight from Scripps Hospital in San Diego. Cost was well into five figures and we had to charge it to our credit card, but it saved his life.
The only way I would ever visit Mexico would be as a passenger on an American cruise line — and I have no interest in cruising…
Go to Hawai’i. You can drink the water, speak the language, use our money and you don’t get little kids annoying you with their “Chiklet”.
I have lived in Texas my whole life and have never been to Mexico. No desire to go either.
This happened to my brother in law in Qatar. He went on a
work contract, came down with some bad juju flue shit and
was in the hospital for weeks. They pulled his passport until
he could work the bill off.
Welcome to the real world you dumb bitch.
My company has special insurance for foreign business travel. We each have a card that has a phone number and instructions for anyone treating us that says all medical expenses will be paid. They have Drs. on staff and will find proper local facitilites and manage all medical treatment over the phone, up to charting a special flight back to the USA.
Just tell the taco eaters to deduct it from the hundreds of billions of dollars they owe us for the medical bills we have paid for their criminal invaders!
Here’s the deal people. When you travel you always get trip insurance. When we book a cruise that’s the first thing that goes on the bill is trip insurance. Sure we pay upwards of $500 for a 3 week trip, but that’s $500 of reassurance – in and out of the United States. I’ve read plenty of horror stories like this one, people say “It isn’t going to happen to me.” Really? I read more about young people getting sick or accidents than older people. Go to insuremytrip.com if you plan to travel and pick a plan. No excuses for being stupid.
Huh. Another reason to visit Mexico.
This is a shakedown. There is absolutely no need to intubate a patient for ketoacidosis. Sounds like she needed IV fluids and, possibly, regular insulin. Both are cheap. Mexico no bueno!