Many private hospitals ready to offer quick Covid-19 jabs - expect to pay 2,000 baht a dose

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, robblok said:

I have no problem paying for this, let them make some profit it gets you in front of the line. I dont think 4000 bt is too much for this.

Sorry Rob, but I have a big problem with this capitalist attitude, making huge profits out of a world wide pandemic which has caused misery and death throughout the world is the lowest of the low, and I hope karma catches up with these money mad sucm.

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, phetphet said:

I received a polling email from B'Grad over a week ago, asking if I would be interested in getting a COVID vaccination.

 

I wonder if they will also issue a certificate of vaccination as proof for any potential future travel.

Not if it's going to eat into their obscene profits they won't.

[PumpkinEater]

There are a few medical outlets that will give you 50% off if they can re use the needles and add water to the vaccine (as they do sometimes with vodka in bars). Hee hee

 

I say make China pay for the worlds vaccine distribution.

After SARs, Bird flu, and now this Covid, they need to be made responsible...

[NoshowJones]

21 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

The privates want to. They've no doubt been making plans and inquiries in those directions...

 

If and when the government will actually give them permission to do so, and for what particular vaccines, remains unknown for now.

 

The unelected "PM" and his soldiers will give them permission alright as long as the brown envelopes keep coming.

[hottrader77]

22 hours ago, MadMac said:

You never need to wait long to see the greed popping up in this country. Big money to make easily.

Is it the original or copy though ?

[NoshowJones]

15 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Private hospitals are business's so yes it's about making money.

Nothing wrong with any businesses making money, that's what it is all about, but there is such a thing as fairness, and there is not much of that.

[NoshowJones]

4 hours ago, vandeventer said:

Are they also giving us a free vaccine passport or do we have to pay for that as well?

I think we all know the answer to that.

[patrick1968]

how do a person know the better vaccine for him ?  I her so many stories about side affects 

[NoshowJones]

3 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

That would be too sensible for Thailand. LOL!

Thailand and being sensible???? Something not right there.

[Suradit69]

22 hours ago, MadMac said:

You never need to wait long to see the gr eed popping up in this country. Big money to make easily.

Nearly as short a wait for farang kee niaow to find something new to whine about.Private hospitals are businesses and they’re offering a service, they’re not charities for economic refugees. Do you expect them to purchase the vaccine and equipment as well as employ personnel to administer the vaccine as a gift for cheap Charlies? Then join the mile long queues just like people do in Europe and America.

 

Happy to pay for the convenience even if my insurance didn’t pay 80% ... which it does. But then insurance isn’t free either.

[KKr]

better expensive than not available !!

[pmarlowe]

don't take this as gospel...but last i heard Sinovac and Az -- most likely to be the option of choice for the masses here -- are not suitable for those over age 65 so the cost could be moot if you are older.

[samuiwonder]

Super news! 

[Davepaul]

The point is how sure which vacine you are getting! 

[samuiwonder]

I hope they can get it soon! 

[Chiang Mai Bill]

I wonder where and how these hospitals will be able to obtain the vaccines? The EU is in turmoil trying to obtain bulk consignments, they stopped a consignment being shipped to Australia earlier this week. Africa is in desparate need of vaccines -- but Thai hospital chains will be able to buy quantities and keep in stock 5 or 6 different 'varieties' to give customers a choice!

 

I assume that each vaccine will have a different price tag -- the Sinovac surely will be cheaper than the Pfizer.

 

Perhaps those clever Chinese could even provide the Sinovac in 'different packagings'? Cheap to print labels with Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AZ, etc.  A good moneymaker!

 

There are some who are unscrupulous enough to see a lucrative opportunity here!

[retayl]

23 hours ago, timendres said:

 

Agreed. But I will not accept the Sinovac. I prefer AZ. But I will not pay more than 2,000 THB. For both shots.

That’s a no from you then.

[Bedfont]

23 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Yet the UK manufacturer is selling the vaccine at $5 a shot (OK $7.50 to South Africa).

Why can't the Thai hospitals buy it at the open market rate?

How would you pay for the brown envelopes?

[dkg224]

23 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Yet the UK manufacturer is selling the vaccine at $5 a shot (OK $7.50 to South Africa).

Why can't the Thai hospitals buy it at the open market rate?

They forgot to mention the money that the government officials will be needing to collect from each dose for “allowing” this. 

[Boomer6969]

I would take any vaccine available for the simple reason that, from a financial point of view, it would be preferable for my loved ones that I live another 8 years. So 4k, upwards, would be like paying some insurance premium.

 

This said, what is at stake here  is to get the whole population of our beautiful planet vaccinated as fast as possible.

[mommysboy]

23 hours ago, robblok said:

I have no problem paying for this, let them make some profit it gets you in front of the line. I dont think 4000 bt is too much for this.

 

Not for the mRNA vaccines maybe.

 

But for the AZ vaccine it should be 700 baht per shot max.

[Hockeybik]

On 3/5/2021 at 3:00 PM, MadMac said:

You never need to wait long to see the greed popping up in this country. Big money to make easily.

Doses of the vaccine will be scarce. If not allocated by prices, how would you prefer to allocate it?

[orchidfan]

1 hour ago, Suradit69 said:

Nearly as short a wait for farang kee niaow to find something new to whine about.Private hospitals are businesses and they’re offering a service, they’re not charities for economic refugees. Do you expect them to purchase the vaccine and equipment as well as employ personnel to administer the vaccine as a gift for cheap Charlies? Then join the mile long queues just like people do in Europe and America.

 

Happy to pay for the convenience even if my insurance didn’t pay 80% ... which it does. But then insurance isn’t free either.

Agree totally.

Only been to two hospitals here (in 15yrs)

Govt one was like crowded 2star hotel in downtown,  poor English, slow etc.

 

Other was Paolo, and was like visiting the Hilton....smartly uniformed , efficient staff, 5 star surroundings,  good Polite English and prompt, world class treatment. 

(Doctor's qualification was from Edinburgh !)

So, 6 stitches, meds, betadine etc and followup visit, B6000.

Worth every satang 

 

So, B5~10,000 for the vaccine of my choice? A no brainer (and I'm 70)

 

[Hockeybik]

1 minute ago, orchidfan said:

Agree totally.

Only been to two hospitals here (in 15yrs)

Govt one was like crowded 2star hotel in downtown,  poor English, slow etc.

 

Other was Paolo, and was like visiting the Hilton....smartly uniformed , efficient staff, 5 star surroundings,  good Polite English and prompt, world class treatment. 

(Doctor's qualification was from Edinburgh !)

So, 6 stitches, meds, betadine etc and followup visit, B6000.

Worth every satang 

 

So, B5~10,000 for the vaccine of my choice? A no brainer (and I'm 70)

 

Well said. I'm happy to pay. 

[VBF]

22 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

 Free to whom? Tax payers?

I think you've come close to something there that no one else on this whole thread has addressed.

Most countries (especially Western ones) will probably offer a free vac to all legal residents.

 

But, owing to Thailand's peculiar visa structure, maybe the "powers that be" might assume that everyone who started out on some sort of non-immigrant visa, may be considered to be merely a visitor, and thus not included. So from their perspective, there's no difference between a Retiree and a Tourist.  After all, you're both given finite dates by which to leave or extend, with conditions applied.

 

I'm not saying this is right, so don't shoot the messenger, but it might be how it ends up.

 

Of course, no Westerner living in or visiting Thailand should have an expectation of free health care anyway - should they?

[orchidfan]

Additional comment regarding those carrying on about the potential cost for vaccination at a private hospital. 

Have any of you calculated your cost per month on wine, beer and (maybe) smokes?

Give me a break !!!

[Charlie Halliday]

So much complaining on this thread. The chance of receiving the vaccine in a few weeks is great. Of course we have to pay for it if we don't want to wait for the government who can't seem to get their act together. 

[Tony125]

On 3/5/2021 at 3:20 PM, Phuketshrew said:

Shouldn't the government be using hospitals to distribute and administer the vaccines free of charge?

.... then I woke up ....

https://fb.watch/42_KgxYSYH/

[JohnHans]

On 3/5/2021 at 3:15 PM, robblok said:

I have no problem paying for this, let them make some profit it gets you in front of the line. I dont think 4000 bt is too much for this.

Ah.. rich man.

[JackGats]

3 hours ago, Dick Z said:

The Chinese are not stupid, I assume Sinovac will work, as the principle of how it is made is the same as for other effective vaccines. But they don't show data and that is the reason why I would prefer one of the others, including the Russian which has been shown by objective sources to be effective.

I heard a rumor that the Chinese don't show data on their vaccine not because they have no data, but because it got tested from day one on prison inmates in the PCR. So the Chinese vaccine might be the best-tested on humans.