Insurance type
Health insurance for nomads & expats
Long-term residents, slow travelers spending 6+ months in one place, expats. Below: what health insurance actually covers, what it doesn't, and the countries we've mapped local costs and rules for โ pick yours to see the detail.
What health insurance covers
What you get
- Inpatient hospitalisation, surgery, and ICU
- Outpatient GP visits, specialists, scans, labs
- Prescription drugs
- Maternity and chronic-condition cover (on better plans)
- Mental-health and preventive care (plan-dependent)
What it won't do
- Routine cover in your home country (usually excluded if you're a tax resident)
- Cosmetic procedures
- Pre-existing conditions on day-one of most plans (medical underwriting)
Health insurance by country
Local costs, mandatory-cover rules and the policy gotchas change by country. Pick yours for the health detail.
- Health insurance in Thailand
- Health insurance in Bali (Indonesia)
- Health insurance in Portugal
- Health insurance in Mexico
- Health insurance in Costa Rica
- Health insurance in Vietnam
- Health insurance in Spain
- Health insurance in Georgia
- Health insurance in United Arab Emirates
- Health insurance in Colombia
- Health insurance in Japan
- Health insurance in Brazil
- Health insurance in Malaysia
- Health insurance in Argentina
- Health insurance in Philippines
- Health insurance in Turkey
- Health insurance in Panama
- Health insurance in Greece
- Health insurance in Italy
- Health insurance in Croatia
- Health insurance in Estonia
- Health insurance in Cyprus
- Health insurance in South Africa
- Health insurance in Mauritius
- Health insurance in Malta
- Health insurance in Hungary
- Health insurance in Czechia
- Health insurance in Barbados
- Health insurance in Sri Lanka
- Health insurance in Montenegro
- Health insurance in South Korea
- Health insurance in Uruguay
- Health insurance in Albania
- Health insurance in Taiwan
- Health insurance in Kenya
- Health insurance in Dominican Republic
- Health insurance in Latvia
- Health insurance in Romania
- Health insurance in Iceland
- Health insurance in Norway
- Health insurance in Serbia
- Health insurance in Slovenia
- Health insurance in Andorra
- Health insurance in Germany
- Health insurance in Netherlands
- Health insurance in Antigua and Barbuda
- Health insurance in Curaรงao
- Health insurance in Bahamas
- Health insurance in Cayman Islands
- Health insurance in Dominica
- Health insurance in Anguilla
- Health insurance in Grenada
- Health insurance in Montserrat
- Health insurance in Saint Lucia
- Health insurance in Aruba
- Health insurance in Bermuda
- Health insurance in Ecuador
- Health insurance in Belize
- Health insurance in Namibia
- Health insurance in Cabo Verde
- Health insurance in Seychelles
- Health insurance in Armenia
- Health insurance in Kazakhstan
- Health insurance in Morocco
- Health insurance in Egypt
- Health insurance in Cambodia
- Health insurance in Peru
- Health insurance in North Macedonia