Com'mon bears..keep the Rangers chat going daily.
Will we sign Jagielka from Everton?

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I wonder what her exit strategy will be.

 
in the UK you would pay 16,000 baht annually for the NHS surcharge which comes with unlimited coverage both in and out patient, no pre-existing conditon exclusions and its for any age
 
mandatory for long stay settlement visas 
 
source: https://www.gov.uk/healthcare-immigration-application/how-much-pay
 
oh and of course being a developed country, after 5 years they give you a passport and you don't have to pay it ever again.
 
not 50-250K every year until you die broke in your late 90s with a policy that covered $%$% all of consequence.
 
 
 

Mandatory health insurance for retirement visa holders likely to take effect in July

national May 16, 2019 01:00

By Chularat Saengpassa
The Nation

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FOREIGNERS aged 50 and above living in Thailand on a long-stay visa will likely have to buy health insurance from July onwards, as authorities are preparing guidelines to enforce the new rules.

 

Approved by the Cabinet last month, the new regulation will require expats on the long-stay non-immigrant O-A visa to have health insurance that offers Bt40,000 coverage for outpatient treatment and Bt400,000 for inpatient. 

https://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30369468

 

When did local Immigration offices start issuing the long stay O-A Visa?

When they mention expats on extensions of temporary permission of stay, then you can be concerned. Currently it's only suggested it will be applicable to Non O-A Visa applications.

Source!

I don't think that is limited to Bab 103.

They don't care.

In the European countries I know and which have a mandatory insurance it is mandatory for the insurance companies as well to insure anybody. It cannot be a one sided requirement.
 
In Thailand nobody wants to have free health care and profit from somebody else. But I understand everybody who wants to stay if he has the funds to do that without being a burden. You could be 85 years old and a multimillionaire. And you would want to refuse this person to stay here by making it mandatory to have an insurance which nobody wants to offer ? This person is and will never be a burden financially and in my eyes it is not very compassionate to ignore that. You would do unspeakable harm to this person - completely unjustified. And I do not think the reasoning of "few collaterals that cannot be avoided" is appropriate. Especially if you think of the aim of this exercise. It is possible to have a solution that fits all. I think this is really the core of all this.
 
Of course you should have the means to be able to pay for your health, which could be demonstrated by having a sum in a fixed account. This would even guarantee that in case of sickness the bills can be paid for sure. An insurance company on the other hand might refuse to pay because of anything and nothing is gained. I thought the aim was to reduce the amount of unpaid bills. Just think yourself which approach would assist here more.

So will I have to get health insurance for Lady Roadrunner too!? She already costs me enough.
 
We Farang need some collective way to petition the Thai Gov't and Immigration. Right now they just do as they please with the reg's that affect our lives. How can they expect people to retire here with no surety of tenure?
 
The health insurance requirement may not affect retirees yet but it's coming for sure.
 
Bottom line is you can stay .... so long as you have money. Typical Thailand.

Fully aware of that but seriously do think they can or would be able to check
Anyway Agents will up their fee to include such certificate..job done!
 

The Thai government is hostile and without empathy for the people who have lived in Thailand for many years.
Farangs puts more money in Thailand an average of Thaier, but will not give us equal rights with the Thais for health insurance. It is crazy, hostile and completely wrong as one will treat resident prisoners.
Many families are destroyed, and many fathers lose everything they have invested over many years, and many have to go home.
If you are over 80, no one will insure your health, and a health insurance for people up to the 80 costs about 91,000 Baht a year.
It is not at all in relation to the demands for income that are set for the retirement visa or married visa, one is completely out in the hemp.
The fact that you will require insurance for those who holiday in Thailand seems to be in perfect order, but the extended measures that are underway are unstable and very hostile.
 
I am 79 years married 11 years and help two children in four year to finish university. I have never been sick and have live here 12 years. All I have here I lose that way, and have nothing to go back to.
 
WHY TO MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was Derek Robinson. Died a while back. What British Leyland screwed up by producing piles of unreliable crap Red Robbo added to the chaos by attempting to get the members even more money for producing a pile of crap. Then of course some time in the late 70's that Tory business brain Michael Edwardes was brought in to Leyland.  What a genius this guy was !  Always remember his claim that he had reduced BLs losses by 50% . Problem was even Toad of Toad Hall could have worked out that if every car is produced at a loss then 50% of that production would half the loss. The penny did drop some years later though.  It was not Red Robbo that ruined BL, although he contributed to the malaise. It was the management refusing to implement higher spending  in R & D and quality control. Couldn't accept that the Germans and Japanese were producing reliable cars that people actually wanted to buy.
 
The dinosaurs who thought we are British, therefore people will always buy British cars claptrap. That self same dinosaur philosophy that has manifested itself to this very day in Brexiteers.

No Nigel, they hate you, and know a snakeoil selling conman when they see one.

Good god - the reek of desperation from that headline is totally underlined by the pathetic attempt to report something from nothing. You have to commend Daily Express reporters for their valiant efforts to turn sh!t into headlines - but I have no sympathy for the people who read this comic book garbage day after day and think that they are getting a credible and unbiased window on the world.
 
In the most recent Yougov Survey, explicitly pro-remain parties in Scotland are polling at 60%. A significant number of Labour voters will also be pro-remain, and even some hardcore tories. Face fact - Scotland sees the Brexit Party for what it is, and we are laughing so hard at it  - as we are at your nonsense headline. 
 

SNP 38%,

Brexit Party 21%,

Liberal Democrats 11%,

Labour 10%,

Greens 9%,

Conservatives 6%,

Change UK 2%

 
 

To be fair, the typically warm Scottish welcome slipped last time he ventured north of the border.
 

Nigel Farage barricaded in Scottish pub and rescued by police riot van

Surprisingly, for such a patriot, it appears that Farage doesn't even know the flag of England. For one who was instrumental in the forming of the EDL, I would have thought he knew the difference between the Union flag and the St George's Cross.
 
"A shaken Mr Farage told reporters: “We have never had a reception like this anywhere in Britain before. Clearly, it’s anti-British and anti-English. They hate the Union Jack.”"

So, if we leave with no deal, do you think that there will not be multiple businesses both in and outside the EU who will line up to do business with the UK, or will they all say "oh dear, stop business with the UK?"   Don't think so and of course our trading markets will open up considerably because we will not be hide bound by EU Law.  Sure, in the immediate term, there will be a down turn, by I strongly believe that the UK will go "hell for leather" to expand business to people who we currently cannot trade with and the Foreign Office already has people out, all over the World exploring new markets.  Sure, we can't at the moment strike up any new deals, but watch this space once we are out.  Roll on Brexit!

You asked stephenterry for his home brew recipe yet you followed up with your own comment " Lastly..the UK Armed Forces would imho.." step in "...and .. well..work it out for yourself. "
 
Never mind about his home brew recipe, yours seem to be more potent and hallucinogenic, recipe please. [emoji23]

But you are. Unless you provide accurate facts and sources to back up your comments, what you have written in your post is just pure gossip, plain and simple.

Except it came from the BoE monetary policy committee as an exact statement of proven historical fact since 2016. 
 
It should be crystal to any reader that Brexit has adversely slowed down the growth of the UK economy, so to disregard that fact is demonstrating an ability not to accept anything adverse about Brexit.
 
And I wonder who lives in fantasy land?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The EU.
 
Just like Theresa May set her red lines.
 
Except tge EU meant what they were saying.

Any government deal has to be approved by parliament, and they would reject a no-deal like they have before. While Brexit could happen by accident, if the October leaving date occurs before any agreement, this is unlikely. More likely would be a GE with or without a Brexiteer PM.
 
As a GE would see Labour in power, I doubt any Tory Brexiteer would want to take up May's place - except for the pension benefits that arise from that post. A poisoned chalice awaits him or her.