PM Prayut reaffirms universal healthcare scheme to stay

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PM reaffirms universal healthcare scheme to stay

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha on Tuesday reiterated that his government has no intention whatsoever to scrap the universal healthcare programme and urged the media to spread his words around so that the people will understand and will not be confused.

 

He said he had said many times before that the programme would not be scrapped, but complained that there were some elements who kept spreading lies to sow confusion or distorting the truth about the programme.

 

Instead of dumping the programme as alleged, the prime minister said the government was trying to increase the average healthcare spending per head to more than 3,100 baht per annum. Although the increased amount is not significant, it would be a bit bigger, he added.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pm-reaffirms-universal-healthcare-scheme-to-stay/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-06-21

[Bluespunk]

"He went on saying that his government was trying to resolve the problem of accessing to expensive drugs by means of promoting local industries to produce the expensive drugs so that they could be made available to patients at much lower prices."

 

Without breaching any patents of course...

[Bob12345]

No intention to scrap it, just change everything around it and keep calling it the same.

[mtls2005]

PM reaffirms universal healthcare scheme to stay

 

He went on to say that in the future all health services would be available only on submarines or high-speed trains.

[Eric Loh]

16 minutes ago, Bob12345 said:

No intention to scrap it, just change everything around it and keep calling it the same.

Gen Prayut did not give up. Instead, he has issued another Section 44 order requiring a rejigging of the act. This led to the controversial bill we are now faced with. A number of so-called public hearings have been arranged, but it is unlikely the regime will make any more changes.

- extract from an opinion piece in BP.

 

4 public hearings on the controversial bill and all 4 aborted due to public anger and protest. Said it all, don't it.