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There is precious little enough and as it is. Land should be for the living to use not for planting people in wooden boxes So for that reason I'm going with cremation

Yes of course & that is what I am saying about that $500 policy for a 80 years old...meaning yes good if he doesn't have many preexisting exclusions, Believe it or not some folks are lucky that way...yes not the majority I am the person who also said that is understandable because if you were the owner of a insurance company you would not sell fire insurance to anyone with their house already on fire would you?

Seems pretty understandable/reasonable No insurance company wants to sell fire insurance to someone whose house is already ablaze ???? At 80 years old $500/month prem would seem a good deal in most places As long as it is not riddled with exclusions due to preexisting problems. After all at 80 the Insurer knows this is going to likely cost

Hopefully the Mods will move your question to either https://aseannow.com/forum/121-insurance-in-thailand/ Or https://aseannow.com/forum/23-health-and-medicine/ As you will likely get more answers but... Also you will find much info in those sub forum sections on insurance This topic does come up often & the takeaway seems to be buy from International based not Thai based companies for a more stable price & coverage. First given your age you may find it tough to find Thai based & if you do they will likely price you out of it in a couple years I am your age & have recently been looking at Cigna Global

It does not matter where you are or how "they" are.....You can only do you You going to do what? What you know is "right" or use others behavior to justify joining their club?

Could be true & it seems they got it but....Now it is your turn as you now have something to work out/pay back Their wrongs did not entitle you to also do wrong

I guess if your under 65 you can get a quote If over 65 need the Switch Care policy If over 71 need the International Exclusive policy

Always funny to hear the fish on a hook asking this question ????

Bottom line?,,,,,, All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small elite. Thailand is exactly an animal farm bizzaro world flipside Prayuth & Prawit can do anything they choose....tear up constitutions, overthrow democratically elected governments, install 250 BS senators Puppets They have their coup/junta govt to carry on by any other name but, it is still exactly what it always was. SOS Thailand SOS different day

Oh similar to becoming a Thai Police officer then? ????

How nice ???? Will Anutin Charnvirakul be greeting them at the gate again?

Actually I have had both types (with & without) meaning a stress test with & without echo The one with echo I had was brutal They work you very hard (recumbent cycle in my case) for much longer/50% than a tilt treadmill test like I have had in the past Then after the physical stress section you have to immediately lay down while they do echo tests & asking you to take deep breath & hold X seconds etc All of that while you are still in a oxygen deficit state so yes IMO brutal ???? But it did give a lot of good data This was done in USA not in Thailand but I am guessing it is also available there

This whole new reality in Thailand is just a regurgitated supposedly polite form of yet another coup/junta Face it Thailand with the 250 BS Coup/Junta placed senators you will never have a say in how your country is run This whole vote system was a farce from beginning to end, Sadly the young protestors know it & while they try to be polite themselves they know it will never work in their favor. As the Thai Rap against dictatorship song says " My Country Have" Turn on subtitles & see.....They know what is what

There is no future ????

This is good news for all the students taking up space in Thai schools ????

Hear Hear ! And the truth is if they cleaned up their own house the other so called foreigner problem would be resolved thru that action. But if instead they just hammer foreigners visa requirements but do nothing about the lawlessness or law for hire bypass routes nothing will ever change

I think you are correct because a year before Covid we were told by folks that work in low places that not only was there talk that the visa financial requirements would rise but Health Insurance to some degree would become mandatory as part of the process of extension but as you say Covid pretty much paused the world. The health insurance was actually in motion or being talked about for some time now & actually started way back when a youtuber who was living in Chiang Rai had heart bypass surgery thru a big online go fund me campaign. That was almost unheard of back then & was kind of an eye opener for Thai's It was as if up to that point they thought all foreigners in Thailand were flush with $$$ Right after that guy's go fund me & operation (he later died) suddenly there were articles about how the average Falang was living on sub 40k baht a month as if that was shocking to them

^^^ From that article linked in OP^^^ Not exactly reassuring is it? This was always the problem with Thailand or any country that doesn't really allow a foreigner a sense of security .....which our home country allows foreigners like my Thai wife. My wife moved to the USA in 2007 got a two year temp residence visa/green card...after those two years she was granted a 10 year permanent green card. Only one year into that 10 year visa she was allowed to apply for & granted full USA citizenship. She now has dual citizenship. Something I was never really able to qualify for in Thailand. In Thailand same as some other places that sense of security will never be known. The goal post could be moved at any given moment. The fact that it has not moved in X amount of years is not really much of an assurance for those of us with homes or fair sized investment in Thailand But it is what it is as they say.....TIT ????

Could be their additional 30 pieces of silver for the betrayal buying them some favors ????

Whats up with Naked Germans in Pattaya lately?

101% she got this "Elite Visa" <sic> as a perk in exchange for the glowing review

True we never know but.... Unless your fortunate enough to be maxing out SS benefit amount or have big income from elsewhere you would not be liable for Part B if returning to USA. Instead you would qualify for Medicaid who would pay both your Part B & also part D

Yup that is him & I agree He makes out like they didn't want to do a go fund me but everyone tells them what a big help they are hahah all they do is drink & travel yet cannot pay their bill & yes I had the same thought about parking her in an apartment next to their friends & expect others to care for her same as they now expect others to pay for her care ????

This raising the financial requirement is not a surprise if it does come true. Malaysia did a big increase awhile back What does not help is all the Go Fund Me pages that constantly pop up We do not actually hear about all of them but they are out there Yes even among the so called self insured "I have money" folks ???? There is a new one right now with a popular Youtuber from the USA who brought his mom over to live. He bought her a small Chinese electric tuktuk style cart which promptly flipped over on her & now they have a Go Fund Me to pay her 15k bill for a new hip. ???? These do not go unnoticed by Thailand & truthfully seems most of this kind of talk started back when another YouTuber did a go fund me for a heart bypass & later died These folks tell Immigration in not so many words that they cannot in fact afford to live in Thailand

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