英伦广角 2010-04-04 重病患者旅行保险费用激增

Fiona MacRae had hoped her holiday would break up months of hospital treatment. A trip to France was supposed to take her mind off her breast cancer, but she says travel insurance companies were intrusive¹ and insensitive.

 

You’ve been through your treatment. You don’t want to be telling somebody constantly about it on the phone call,a stranger,discussing personal medical information with what can sometimes be kids in call centers.

 

Thousands of people who need time away are facing similar problems. Many companies will increase insurance prices or even refuse cover. We called 10 companies to see what impact² illness had on prices. Eight companies wouldn’t cover previous problems like cervical cancer, another asked for a medical report,in the last case the price jumped from 67 pounds to 2037 for ten days in New York, that was because of previous conditions. Which the consumer watchdog say people are effectively blacklisted from getting travel insurance.

 

The insurance industry does need to catch up, you know, ok, if there are conditions where there's a big risk, obviously³, that should be reflected in the policy, but people should be getting fair deals.

 

The cost varies⁴ depending on where you travel. It's much more expensive from ,say ,America,where medical bills are higher.

 

The sort of things people could do to make it a much more affordable⁵ situation or even perhaps travel without insurance is to travel in Europe where if you can get a easy card, where you can get reciprocal⁶ medical treatments under the reciprocal arrangements with the NHS. and that will be a much more affordable trip for them.

 

But Fiona says people who have previous conditions should be able to travel to faraway places. She's now set up her own specialist insurance company, but accepts, the industry still has a long way to go.

 

Amy Lewis ,Sky News
 

1 intrusive   

adj.打搅的；侵扰的

参考例句：

• The cameras were not an intrusive presence.那些摄像机的存在并不令人反感。
• Staffs are courteous but never intrusive.员工谦恭有礼却从不让人感到唐突。

2 impact   

n.冲击，碰撞；影响；vt.装紧，压紧

参考例句：

• The computer had made a great impact on modern life.计算机对现代生活产生了巨大的影响.
• How will the war impact on such a poet?战争对这样一个诗人会产生什么影响？

3 obviously   

adv.显然；明白地

参考例句：

• Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
• Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。

4 varies   

变化( vary的第三人称单数 )； [生物学]变异； 相应变化； 呈现不同

参考例句：

• The need for sleep varies considerably from person to person. 不同的人对睡眠的需要差异相当大。
• the stultifying effects of work that never varies 一成不变的工作造成的使人呆滞的后果

5 affordable   

adj.支付得起的，不太昂贵的

参考例句：

• The rent for the four-roomed house is affordable.四居室房屋的房租付得起。
• There are few affordable apartments in big cities.在大城市中没有几所公寓是便宜的。

6 reciprocal   

adj.相互的，互惠的，互补的；n.相互，互惠 [数］ 倒数

参考例句：

• Our relationship is based on reciprocal respect.我们的关系是以互相尊重为基础的。
• Although I gave him many presents,I had no reciprocal gifts from him.虽然我给他很多礼物，但我没有收到过他给我的礼物。