His luck went overboard.
A Minnesota man gained a free week-long cruise trip to the Caribbean for him and his girlfriend solely to catch the flu onboard and get slapped with an eye-popping $47,000 medical invoice.
Mike Cameron and his girlfriend Tamra Masterman gained a free Norwegian cruise journey that set sail out of Miami on Jan 5, in response to Fox 9.
However what began as a dream journey to the tropical vacation spot shortly went awry when Cameron, of Braham, Minn., got here down with the flu.
The ailing passenger sought remedy on the medical heart onboard the Norwegian Encore ship and recovered three days later.
Because the couple’s tour of the Caribbean got here to an finish, Cameron was shocked to study he was caught with the almost $50,000 medical invoice.
“To turn around the day we are leaving and get handed a $47,000 bill I just didn’t even know what to do,” he instructed the native information station final week.
Cameron stated the invoice got here as a shock as crew members assured him to not fear as he acquired remedy.
“Everyone in the medical ward kept saying ‘Don’t worry you have $20,000 coverage, you’ll be just fine’.”
The cruise line maxed out two bank cards Cameron had on file and he nonetheless owes $21,000, the station reported.
“You start thinking, ‘Are you going to lose your house, are you going to lose your cars’?” Masterman added.
The couple had bought journey insurance coverage from the cruise line which lined bills of as much as $20,000 and have medical insurance — however Cameron is caught in a holding sample with each claiming the opposite is answerable for the invoice.
“The traveler’s insurance doesn’t want to pay it until we run it by our health insurance. The health insurance doesn’t want to pay it because it’s abroad,” Masterman defined.
Caught in limbo, Cameron isn’t certain how he’ll afford the steep invoice.
“I don’t know how I’m ever going to pay them off, I’m going to have to, but, I don’t know how,” he instructed Fox 9.
The couple stated the invoice accompanied a letter from Norwegian stating its pricing was “closely comparable to other cruise lines and is what we believe to be fair and reasonable.”
A spokesperson for the cruise line didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
