I Flew All the Way to Europe to Save Money on Travel Vaccines

Thank you for a “brilliant” start to 2023. I had such a lovely (albeit emotional) time with you, and to commemorate these past few weeks and the memories I made, I’ve written you the following letter. Please enjoy. As you may know, my decision to visit you was quite an unusual one: when I left New Zealand in December, I was planning to head to Asia after only a brief stop in the States. However, as soon as I started calling up travel clinics in California and Colorado to schedule travel vaccinations, I learned that it would cost me at least two grand (over £1,500) to get the jabs I wanted for Southeast Asia. Seeing how much these prices varied between clinics, though, I realized that the absurdly high numbers seemed to actually be pretty arbitrary. So, I started to wonder… how much cheaper might the same vaccine(s) be in a completely different healthcare system? <a href="https://medium.com/@carmenborgia/i-flew-all-the-way-to-europe-to-save-money-on-travel-vaccines-an-open-letter-to-scotland-9044d2753b67">Read More</a>