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Old Nov 12, 2014 | 1:44 pm
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westcoastgal
 
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Medical Travel Insurance for Seniors - Canada

I am hoping that someone can refer me to a good agent or policy. I need to purchase medical travel insurance for my daughter's grandparents. They are both over 70 years old. The grandmother is in fairly good health for her age and has no medical issues and is not on any medications. The grandfather has diabetes but is not on insulin but still, has diabetes. He's got high blood pressure and is a smoker as well. I know he shouldn't be smoking and but that is neither here nor there now.
For her, I got a quote of $550 but for him, over $3500 for 90 days. I expect it to be high and don't want to lie at all on the applications but I am hoping that there are more reasonable rates out there or those that are for pre existing conditions.

If you have recommendations of an agent to contact or an insurance provider, please PM me with the details. I do need it fairly urgently as they travel on Nov 26 and didn't plan on getting insurance at all due to the cost. I have decided to purchase it for them as I don't feel comfortable with my daughter's elderly grandparents traveling to Vietnam for 3 months without medical coverage.

Thanks in advance.
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