Editing Repatriation (section)

===Medical repatriation===
Repatriation is linked with health care due to the costs and resources associated with providing medical treatment to travelers and immigrants pursuing citizenship. For example, if a foreign national is in the United States with a visa and becomes ill, the insurance that the visa holder has in his or her native country may not apply in the United States, especially if it is a country with [[universal health care]] coverage. This scenario forces hospitals to choose one of three options: 
* Limit their services to emergency care only (as per the [[Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act]]) 
* Offer charity care free of charge or at a reduced rate 
* Repatriate the patient back to his or her native country where he or she will be covered according to that country's policy<ref>{{cite journal|last=Wack|first=Kevin J.|author2=Toby Schonfeld |title=Patient Autonomy and the Unfortunate Choice between Repatriation and Suboptimal Treatment|journal=American Journal of Bioethics|year=2012|volume=12|issue=9|pages=6–7|doi=10.1080/15265161.2012.692444|pmid=22881843|s2cid=24932647}}</ref>
Determining which option is the most ethical is often very challenging for hospital administrators.

In some cases, a traveler's personal insurance company may repatriate the patient back to their home country for medical treatment due to the cost of medical expenses in the current country. The method of repatriation could be via regular flight, by ground, or by air ambulance which ever is deemed necessary subjected to the medical condition of patient and cost in mind. Medical repatriation is different from the act of [[medical evacuation]].