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"There is also the money issue; these hospitals used to lose money from Farang tourists who did stupid things and could not or would not pay". This hideous lie is one of the main bullet points in the false narrative that all of the hospitals love to parrot in order to justify their ridiculous pricing schedules. I have lived in Thailand for 15 years and have never heard of one farang patient who has left the hospital with an unpaid bill which was never collected. Every retailer on the planet has a budget item on their balance sheet for loss due to pilferage, theft, spoilage, and so on. All hospitals certainly have budgeted for losses as well. It's part of doing business, so why should we farangs pay an extra price for hospital products and services just because the hospital loses a bit of money that has already been budgeted for. It's all one big scam to put more money in the pockets of the elite within the industry.

I am curious to know just how much the government is going to charge farangs for this medicine. I was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in October 2023, and the first batch of Imatinib (same as the IMCRANIB 100) that I purchased from the hospital was imported from The Netherlands, and it only cost me $23 for a month's supply. I came back 30 days later and was told they no longer import that brand, and I had to pay $200 per month for an imported brand from India. My first thought was it had to be a money grab from the local government hospital. When one has leukemia, this is the only medication available to keep the disease at bay, so the hospital knows that we will pay whatever price they charge. Someone has been getting rich off the government's subsidies to their own hospitals; plus, the profits they make from the poor souls who have to pay out of pocket for their meds.....like me!

The real beast that needs to be tackled is the dual pricing in private and even in government hospitals which are government sanctioned by the way.

The 2 A/C's and shower heater are all on separate breakers. 10 breakers are being used, and two are not being used. And, I promise I won't be messing with it because I don't have a clue about electrical wiring.

I purchased a new home in 2011, and I have never had a problem with the electrical system until now. For the past few weeks, anytime I am running my 2 a/c units and my wife, or myself, is taking a shower with the hot water heater going, the main shuts off. We have to turn off 1 a/c and flip the main switch back on to complete the shower. Any suggestions on what the problem could be? Any advice would be appreciated.

I recently transferred quite a sum of money from my USD FCD Fixed Deposit Account at Bangkok Bank to my wife's new FCD Global Savings Account at Krung Thai Bank, and I had to do it using SWIFT which cost me around USD 57, plus 500 Baht to make the deposit at KTB. With the new Global Savings Account which is available only to Thais, my wife can now transfer USD or other recognized foreign currency from KTB to any other FCD account in Thailand without any fee. Not sure if this arrangement is applicable in other banks.

Happiness is extremely elusive and is dictated by external circumstances which can't always be controlled. What you should be looking for is JOY, and that is something that rises up on the inside of you if you are in right relationship with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit resides in you. JOY remains constant, it never goes away, and it is not dependent on external circumstances. HE will be your rock in times of trouble, and HE is the light at the end of your tunnel, so stop chasing happiness and start seeking Jesus! HE's the only one that can give you the desires of your heart!

Any day that I have to leave the safety of my own little sanctuary castle that I live in.....is a bad day. It all begins when I get on the roads and have to drive alongside absolute morons when it comes to road safety, and then when I get to where I am going, I have to interact with the braindead employees in all assortments of the food or service industry, from doctors to restaurants to banking....you name it. Things seldom go as planned, and it is just one stressful situation after another. If you run into a hurdle in any of these places, you will hear 100 reasons why they can't help you, and zero solutions to your problem. It's absolutely ridiculous!

I was simply playing the odds. Germany has the largest population in the world that identify as Lutherans. Germany 11,440,694 out of a population of 84, 866,000. Actually, I was thinking of Norway, and I got it confused with Germany. Norway is 67% Lutheran. My bad!

No, I have lived in Thailand now for 15 years, and I spent the first 3 trying to assimilate into the culture and finally decided it was a waste of my time and energy. I cannot speak for the character of every Thai, but I can only tell you that on my path I have met only liars and scammers and never met a Thai man that proved himself worthy of my trust. In order for me to cope, I decided to put up walls to protect my heart, and my money, and I am very comfortable living in my own little world with just my Thai wife and her family. I'm as happy as I'm every going to get, and I'm at peace with that.

No, but she should gently be trying to share the Gospel of Christ with you so that you will submit your life to the Lordship of Jesus Christ, and then you two will be on the same page. Jesus warns us about yoking ourselves intimately with an unbeliever because he knows that there will always be a "push and pull" in the marriage relationship, and ultimately there will be days filled with conflict. If she's not doing that and she gets along fine with you, then she should be questioning her relationship with Christ. The world is full of people who identify as Christians, but they haven't a clue. It's as if they have just checked the Christian box on an employment application because they were certain that the other boxes didn't apply, and that was the only box that seemed to fit, but it really didn't. And by the way, you are disqualified from being the spiritual head of your household because you are not being let by The Holy Spirit but by the anti-Christ spirit of this world. If you are an atheist, then you are being led by the wisdom, knowledge and understanding that you get from the world instead of from Above, and you will never be able to attain the leadership role that God has purposed for you. My prayer for you is that one day the Holy Spirit will open your eyes so that you can see the Light and no longer walk in darkness.

Consider yourself fortunate that you don't have Thai male friends. If so, you would only be opening yourself up to trouble and grief. Loyalty and honesty are foreign words to them, generally speaking of course. The odds are not in your favor that anything good would come of such a relationship.

I suppose I wrongfully assumed that any upstanding German Lutheran would know the Holy Scriptures, so he should know better. Being the spiritual head of his household, he should never let his wife's Buddhist ideology usurp Christian principles, unless of course, he's not a Christian.

Matthew 6:1-4... Giving to the Needy: “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in Heaven. “So, when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. IN OTHER WORDS, MAKING MERIT FOR THE PRAISE OF MAN TO BE PUBLISHED ONLINE FOR ALL TO SEE PROFITS YOU NOTHING FROM ABOVE! A PAT ON THE BACK AND A FEW "AT A BOYS" IS ALL YOU WILL EVER RECEIVE!

If it weren't for us "southern bible thumping nutjobs" who are the apple of God's eye, NY would already have been destroyed. God's love for HIS PEOPLE is the only thing holding back the wrath of God on the US of A. If you have never received Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, then you are NOT in the family of God, and your father is Satan.....forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth. John 3:36 says "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him".