Wednesday, May 15, 2019

190515 Thailand Mandatory Health Insurance clarified UPDATE: June 13

190613 The health insurance requirement goes into effect July 1.  The headlines in the days to follow should be a further clarification of who is affected. Most insurance I have seen advertised was quite reasonable until age 70.

When the news  first broke I was in a bit of a panic mode, ready to start packing
Hours after first reading the story (with some experience in media and propaganda) I realized the full story evolves over days, weeks and more, till all the facts become clear.  

Even now all the facts are not clear, but my question "... does it apply to NON-RE ?" has been answered.  

What it does show is the inadequacies of some of the local media which should have reported the full facts from the beginning.  It would have avoided a lot of panic and heartburn.


สกลนคร Sakon Nakhon

2 comments:

Unknown said...

"does it apply to NON-RE" I find it hard to believe your question has been answered as there is no such visa as a Non-RE.

Unknown said...

"it does not affect anyone who stays in Thailand on an extension of stay based on retirement ."

Again you seem to have not read the article fully, the most important word mentioned is "appears" - no one is sure yet, so to post what you have above is incorrect.