Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by macca46 » May 15, 2019, 9:51 am

According to Ubon Joe on TV it only applies when you want an OA long stay visa when getting it from the the Thai Embassy in your home country.



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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by tamada » May 15, 2019, 10:51 am

choi choi wrote:
May 15, 2019, 7:53 am
At 77, What insurance company insure me? In their eyes,I'm at deaths door!
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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by mathusalah80 » May 15, 2019, 11:04 am

choi choi wrote:
May 15, 2019, 7:53 am
At 77, What insurance company insure me? In their eyes,I'm at deaths door!
In which case, at my current age of 88 years, I would be considered already dead! :( So presumably I would be exempt from this requirement! ;) :D

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by choi choi » May 15, 2019, 12:51 pm

They wont have any sympathy! But they wont send you back! Dont worry too expensive .Just get you toasted1 Free of charge!

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by tamada » May 15, 2019, 1:05 pm

mathusalah80 wrote:
May 15, 2019, 11:04 am
choi choi wrote:
May 15, 2019, 7:53 am
At 77, What insurance company insure me? In their eyes,I'm at deaths door!
In which case, at my current age of 88 years, I would be considered already dead! :( So presumably I would be exempt from this requirement! ;) :D
Respect sir! 88 is far, far more than a 'good innings' as my late dad would say.

Think of how you may have dodged the bullet back in the UK where, once you have turned the grand old age of 70 (65 for women) the 'wonderful' NHS employ a sliding scale of palliative care that is inversely proportional to the amount of prescriptions they dole out to address the incrementally failing health caused by the sliding scale of palliative care...

And it's free!

(In Scotland, even the drugs are free)

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by saint » May 15, 2019, 1:21 pm

Free drugs in Scotland . That explains a lot . :lol: :lol:

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by tamada » May 15, 2019, 5:18 pm

saint wrote:
May 15, 2019, 1:21 pm
Free drugs in Scotland . That explains a lot . :lol: :lol:
LOL... an therr wuz you thinkin' it was all aboot yon Irn Bru.

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by Doodoo » May 15, 2019, 6:34 pm

Hold on Boys until the dust settles

We have seen many new rules incorporated and weeks later they pull them back and circle the wagons, examples would be the new law of no one riding in the back of pickups, no need to carry a drivers license any more, no issuing of Red Plates anymore etc

One thing that could be done and should be done is a Grand Father clause for this that choose. Also this should not start now but a given date in the future to iron out all the bugs before implementing, say Year End 2019. This will help the Expats and also the Immigration Outlets to adjust. Clarify the amount of cash is needed if you cant get insurance in writing Kingdom wise, in WRITING for ALL to see and adhere to

Can only hope this change will in the end not affect many Expats

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by Raoul Duke » May 16, 2019, 8:51 am

mathusalah80 wrote:
May 15, 2019, 11:04 am
In which case, at my current age of 88 years, I would be considered already dead! :( So presumably I would be exempt from this requirement! ;) :D
88 well played Sir.
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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by Charlieb » May 16, 2019, 9:43 am

As I posted elsewhere:

Proposed mandatory health insurance
Bt40,000 coverage for outpatient treatment
Bt400,000 coverage for inpatient treatments
Source:Department of Health Service Support

Wouldn't the 800K required for a retirement extension cover this?
Increase amount in marriage account to 440K and it is covered also.

Am I missing something here?

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by DuiDui49 » May 16, 2019, 9:49 am

Charlieb wrote:
May 16, 2019, 9:43 am
As I posted elsewhere:

Proposed mandatory health insurance
Bt40,000 coverage for outpatient treatment
Bt400,000 coverage for inpatient treatments
Source:Department of Health Service Support

Wouldn't the 800K required for a retirement extension cover this?
Increase amount in marriage account to 440K and it is covered also.

Am I missing something here?
Godmorning Charlieb!....You know that we are in Thailand now..were LOGIC is not something Thais are good at.So that said..July seems to be the starting point of all this Insurance thing,so i guess we just have to wait and see.Have a good day Charlieb...:-)

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by noosard » May 16, 2019, 11:31 am

38m o-a visas lol 555

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by noosard » May 16, 2019, 11:35 am

Believe it is stupid telling dumb something more stupid and then getting an answer which is reported as law

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Re: Insurance mandatory for long-stay foreigners

Post by noosard » May 16, 2019, 11:37 am

With this logic there will be no more O-A visas but just O visas as stated in article no insurance need there

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