[FireBeyond]

Oh, and I love where my insurance would cover my prescriptions from CVS in Washington, but when I was down in California needing steroids and anti-inflammatories urgently for my gout, they would not cover them there (and I'd made the apparently idiot assumption of having the urgent care physician send the scripts to a nearby CVS because I thought they'd be covered. Nope. Not even "out of network" - I ended up paying out of pocket and arguing for reimbursement.

[vundercind]

For non-Americans: US health insurance is often bound to a state or even a region of a state, paying only for emergency care (and that, only because they are required to) outside that area.

We basically need travel insurance to safely travel in our own damn country.

Add it to the list of crazy features of our system, any one of which would cause riots in another OECD state if not fixed promptly. And we’ve got several.