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Originally Posted by GeoffW1
Hi,
I think the whole area is a minefield. Flight Centre pushed a policy to us on top of all other bookings for hotels and flights. I found this quote was twice the cost of an equivalent policy on the open market. I thought it should be the other way around. The FC consultant got quite cheesed off about it, but not with me I think.
The killer was that my wife has diabetes, and that caused things to get very restrictive. In the end it narrowed down to just one offering, and price faded as a main consideration. So, any of you that do have a pre-existing condition (some of which get listed as a "contact us for a chat" type thing), do read that fine print carefully. I think many people don't look.
Cheers
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Hi Geoff,
You aren't wrong about prices being all over the place for the purchased Travel Insurance. The first time I went looking for it I tried my health fund - Defence Health - and got the quote. Then I went looking for it cheaper somewhere else. I tried Qantas and ANZ and someone else, and they were 70% to 100% dearer for what looked to me to be pretty much the same thing as Defence Health (which was through AIG then, but is even cheaper now through Allianz).
The pre-existing conditions at Defence Health/ Allianz is all pretty much built into the quote, after you answer the questions on-line. My diabetes added about $50 to the non diabetes quote.
Cheers,
Renato