S/O of travel insurance post

It’s not the same as Nevada or Hawaii. Yes, it’s a territory, but a lot of US healthcares are useless in PR.

The question was "why isnt the US government doing anything to get him back." There are a number of reasons why they wouldnt in this situation and one of them is that he isnt in a foreign country

I would not expect help from the US government unless someone were trapped in an unfriendly country. PR is a US territory, his family is able to get to him. I don't know about the quality of the hospitals but I do think travelers need to prepare for things to go wrong especially if they are traveling somewhere remote.

Honestly, it irks me every time I hear about all the rescue operations it takes to get to someone stranded on a mountain because they were hiking in a blizzard and there was an avalanche or some other foolish thing they shouldn't have been doing in the first place. I'm not saying this young man was doing something foolish but bad things do happen that can cost a lot of money for medical care anywhere in the world including in your own town. You can't expect the government to bail out everyone.

Same here. I'm not sure why people commenting on the Go Fund Me page think the US Gov't should help. He broke his leg and had medical complications while on vacation. He isn't in a political situation or anything.

We once had a girl from our church go on a mission trip to Honduras. The first day after arriving, she became very ill and because of her location, there were no hospitals nearby to help. (Turns out she was having some kind of late reaction to the vaccines she received). She literally almost died, but it was up to those that could help (mostly her family) to get her back to the US for treatment (where after weeks in the hospital, she eventually recovered). No one expected the US Government to help.