We have some kind of insurance coverage that we pay extra for, through Amex Platinum. And we've had the Medjet coverage for years and years; it isn't very expensive, and it's such comfort to know we have that card in our wallet.

A neighbor and her husband rented a motorcycle somewhere in rural Mexico, many years ago. She fell off and literally crushed her hip; the Mexican doctors kept insisting that they MUST do surgery on her, but her husband wanted her to have it done here. He had stay awake constantly to keep her from being carted off to surgery, while frantically trying to find an ambulance plane to get her home. It cost a horrible amount of money, and within a couple of weeks of hearing about it, we joined up with Medjet.