Make travel insurance compulsory, say voters in Phuket poll

[the guest]

Technically all foreigners are visitors (tourists) so it should apply to all.

[gk10002000]

On 6/26/2017 at 0:25 AM, fiddlehead said:

Perhaps you are an insurance salesman. 
Have you ever tried to collect insurance from a travel insurance company? 
I have. 
It took almost a year to get my mother some money from them after a bad trip she went on. 
Insurance companies are in business to take your money. 
Not to pay it out. 

(know any poor insurance salesmen?)

 

Yes, and few if any direct pay the hospital.  So you still have to pay out with your money, and then file for reimbursement later.  So unless the Thais have some way to make payment of bills direct, just mandating insurance won't do a darn thing.  I have plenty of insurance in my home country but they still require me to file for reimbursement.  I used to buy some travel insurance on my first trips to thailand but never ever found one that had direct billing so there was no point in buying it