Cheaper Expat Insurance?

brunnerlauren wrote:

Does anyone know of how to find cheaper expat health insurance? The cheapest seems to run at 2,000USD. Unaffordable. Any suggestions?

2K, you say.

Is that per month or per year?

Here in Ecuador I have been paying premiums of 73US per month into the government IESS program.  According to my pocket calculator, that is 876US per year.

cccmedia in Quito, Ecuador

Expat insurances, which have to cover every risk there is worldwide, are always costlier than local insurances in the country (or -ies) you reside in. Look for governmentally sanctioned or subsidized schemes, like the one cccmedia mentions above, which exist in many places.
(US$2000/year is very cheap for an Expat insurance - the ones I found a few years ago were all above US$4000/year!)