OneMoreFarang

For security reasons it is better to use a credit card instead of a debit card.

And obviously you would lose that bet. Do you really think I am so masochistic that I would listen to the orange one for more than a minute or two? Sure not!

I never heard that anybody would mix that with cheese.

Enjoy!

The following is an invoice from a (not so expensive) private hospital which I received recently. If I would have asked for the cost in advance, I doubt they could have given me an accurate estimate. Maybe "doctors fee" for 800B? I leave it up to you to figure out what this was about. 😉

Many of those "little items" are hundreds or thousands of percent overcharged in big hospitals. And it seems there are no regulations in place to restrict them.

Yes, I noticed. And with some of them it looks sexy. I asked one of those sexy girls for how long she will have to wear the braces. Her answer was that she has them only for cosmetic reason, she doesn't need them. Every couple of weeks she got a different color...

Just in general why I used the SCB app payment. In Lazada I just had to pick my purchase, then click pay, it opened the SCB app on my phone, and 2 or 3 clicks later all was paid. That is easier than using QR code. Credit card is an option. But in general, I don't want my credit card data stored in some Thai company computer...

Thanks In my case I reordered the same item from the same seller where I last purchased it a couple of months ago. And I couldn't use the SCB all like before. I didn't try to buy anything else yet.

Until now I paid my Lazada shopping with my SCB banking app. Now it seems that is not possible anymore. Luckily, I could still pay with that app in Shopee. Does anybody know if that is a temporary problem or what is going on? I never had problems with that way of payment, and it is/was very convenient.

Didn't they mention that one on fox "news"?

His new tech-buddies will make sure that Americans only get the news which the (rich) people in power want to give them. And obviously the news does not need to have any resemblance with reality. Look who is working for Trump.

Because in other countries with people with common sense the people would not vote for a criminal. And in other countries political parties throw bad people out of the party. But obviously the USA is different.

I have no idea about that procedure. But another issue with cost is that it seems there are always many items on the invoice. Doctors fee, nurse fee, laboratory, maybe some special room, lab supply or whatever. Are all these items included if what your doctor quoted? Or is it at the end 10k + + + + ?

Actually, there are some people who don't feel comfortable with their born sex. And if a guy wants to play a woman or a woman wants to play a guy, let them do that. The problem is when people pretend trans women are real women. They are obviously not real women. Just call them trans, and don't allow them in women only activities like women sport or women clubs or whatever and all is fine. Living in Thailand for many years most of us know that we can all live in peace together, independent of he, she, or something in between.

In some (maybe all) hospitals you can inquire about the cost of procedures. I guess you could do it once yourself and another time send a Thai national. But I am not so sure that you can compare things 1:1. Maybe different age, different medical history, overall medical condition and all those factors. Sometimes hospitals also have special promotions. But you have to ask for those before agreeing to any treatments. Now when I need something I tell them I will pay myself and I ask them what they want to do and then I agree or disagree. I.e. last time they wanted to make an x-ray. I was 99.9% sure that for my problem it wasn't necessary to do that. I told them. They told me ok, then I have to sign that a doctor recommended the x-ray, but I told him not to do that. I signed, problem solved. And to be fair, I understand that in some cases the doctor has to cover his back so that people don't complain later why he didn't do this or that.

Are they charging more for exactly the same service and maybe exactly the same medication? In my limited experience hospitals and doctors in hospitals want to make money. If they can sell you something more expensive then they will do that. Recently I had a little accident at home. Before I visited a hospital I checked about the possible treatments on the internet. When I arrive in the emergency room a doctor suggested to do this and that and whatever. I told him that I heard somewhere that maybe x (a cheaper and probably medially better solution). He was a little reluctant but then he agreed that that would also be an option (where he and the hospital would make a lot less money). So that's what we did. I paid about 3500 THB. Obviously, it is not always possible to check in advance about the options. But if possible, people should do that. And they should ask if there are cheaper procedures compared to what the doctor suggests first. It seems to be that most of them want to make money. That is their very first priority.

I know some people are in jail. I am pretty sure even the crazy Americans wouldn't jail anybody for just taking a peaceful walk. I am disappointed that so many people want the orange criminal to be their leader.

How about a law that convicted criminals can't be president? Or would that be too radical?

I am sure it will be bad looking at the news every day. But luckily, I live far away from that strange country. So, most of the time I can just laugh about them.

He/him There are lots of people who are not extreme left who despise the criminal orange one. I don't like DEI and pronouns and all that crap. But I think it is even worse that half the Americans "think" that they want a criminal pussy grabber to be their president.

Is anyone like that in jail?

In other news: The following property is for sale. The owner is not allowed to work remotely anymore so he won't need this for the next four years.