Health Insurers & Financial Assistance
Whether or not to buy health insurance and where to buy it for your Westie can be a very complex and confusing task. You have to maneuver through premiums and deductables and administrative details on reimbursement and what diseases or treatments are covered and the age of your dog and pre-existing conditions and lots of terms and conditions and legalese. Feel like your head is about to explode?
There is a very good section on pet health insurance and financial assistance for large vet bills at the Morris Animal Foundation website.
Good background information for pet health insurance at the North American Pet Health Insurance Association website.
There are at least eight different companies currently offering pet health insurance in the U.S. and two in Canada:
USA:
- AKC Pet Healthcare Plan
- ASPCA Pet Insurance (Hartville)
- PetCare Pet Insurance
- PetFirst Healthcare
- Petplan Pet Insurance
- PetsBest Insurance
- Pets Health Plan (Hartville)
- Trupanion Pet Insurance
- VPI Pet Insurance
Canada:
There is a very simple and quick comparison guide for six of the above pet health insurance companies at www.pet-insurance-information.com.
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