The comedian Bombo Fica suffered a decompensation in Barcelona, Spain, during the month of May, as a result of hypertension that was not being treated adequately.
In fact, in that European country he found out that he suffered from this diagnosis, which caused him discomfort that led him to undergo surgery in a clinical hospital in the Catalan city.
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The cost of the intervention
Although in an interview with “Mucho Gusto”, he assured that at the venue “They didn’t charge me anything“, in an interview he gave to CHV he revealed that maintains a debt with the hospital that amounts to several million pesossince health care is free only for residents and immigrants, not for tourists (as was their case).
Not even the travel insurance that he took out prior to his trip was of any use, since it only covered the expenses of the first time they went to the hospital, but not those of the second.
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“I was left in a state of tremendous vulnerability and disappointment, because the insurance appeared the first time. He paid the first hospital fee, which wasn’t much, like I don’t know, 200 dollars, something like that,” he indicated.
When the insurance company learned that his health problem required surgery, they told the comedian that this was not covered by them, since the diagnosis that led to the intervention corresponded to a pre-existing problem.
“The insurance disappeared and then they sent us a statement telling us that I had a pre-existing condition, what does that mean? That I should have known or not have known, but the fact that it was there was already pre-existing“, lament.
The amount of debt owed to the hospital amounted to about 6,000 dollarsa figure close to 5.5 million Chilean pesos, which he paid. “The funny thing is that I had my Master Plop and I paid for everything with Master Plop, so no problem,” he concluded, referring to his well-known joke about credit cards.
