Heart disease, accidents, cancer top list of insurance claims

BANGKOK: -- Heart disease, accidents and cancer top the list of life-insurance claims, according to the Commerce Ministry's Insurance Department.

Cancer was the number one cause of life-insurance claims at 20 per cent, department director-general Chandhra Buranarerk said.

Second on the list was heart disease with 16 per cent of claims and accidents came in at three with 10 per cent, she said.

When it comes to health-insurance claims cancer is at the top of that list, too. Expenditure for treatment has risen dramatically in recent years, Chandhra said.

Chandhra encourages people to consider additional life or health-insurance cover to include cancer death or treatment.

Those purchasing insurance should ensure companies paid the full cost of treatment. Many policies offer limited cover only and conditions.

The department offers insurance-coverage advice at it 1186 hotline.

-- The Nation 2006-12-02

How do these figures match up with the west?

Is Thailand becoming 1st world country with cancer and heart disease at the top of the list?

How do these figures match up with the west?

Is Thailand becoming 1st world country with cancer and heart disease at the top of the list?

Yes. Seen how fat some of the little mall rats are getting in Thailand recently?

Amazing really, a country gifted with a wonderful bounty of foods, and range of fruits and vegetables, and they queue up to stuff themselves with KFC / McD's <deleted>?

Smoking, air pollution, and pesticides in food also directly cause cancer. It is not only obesity.