Why I'm Glad that I Found VIVA VIDA!

An anonymous testimonial

I came to Japan on a tourist visa after finishing graduate school in the States. My idea was to work for a few months in Japan and then backpack across Southeast Asia, India and Europe. My parents had always included me in our family insurance plan, but they weren't sure whether that plan would cover me overseas.

A friend in Japan told me about VIVA VIDA! and suggested that I consider taking out a policy. I had never purchased insurance on my own and - for that matter - had never spent a night in a hospital. If the VIVA VIDA! premiums had been expensive, I would probably never have purchased the insurance. But the premiums were affordable for me, even as an underpaid English teacher, so I took out a policy.

Boy, was I glad that I had insurance! I woke up unconscious one morning, Or rather, I didn't wake up one morning. Fortunately, my Japanese girlfriend was worried about me and came and found me unconscious in my apartment. She called an ambulance, which took me to Kawakita Hospital, in Tokyo's Asagaya district. I had come down with acute pneumonia, but the doctors and their antibiotics had me back on my feet in less than a week.

A woman from the hospital's accounting came to my room on my last day there and asked how I would pay. I simply gave her the information about VIVA VIDA!, and that was all I needed to check out of the hospital.