Do I need health insurance for a Non-O visa application to Thailand?

Yes you need an Health Insurance, book AXA for 6000 Bath one Year. How I see this is now a requirement.

Read/follow the rules. It’s all there in print.

Scott if retired you can get a letter from MSD NZ indicating income yearly and monthly though super which the NZ EMBASSY here in Thailand will check and stamp and issue affidavit for immigration.Think it is about 2 000 baht for the letter plus courier here in Thsiland. The other stuff not sure as here on marriage visa which is slightly different, whatever Tod tells you will be correct.

Sadly (for you) they're not wrong, 🙁

Unfortunately, the thai consulates scattered around the world have great latitude as far as setting policy to sell the various and sundry thai visas 😕

There are more than a few consulates that require the mandatory health insurance to issue Non-O visas

Oh man, you submitted your visa application already? 😮 Which means you also paid? 🙁

The Thai Consulate in New Zealand is has the highest prices in the entire world for visas to thailand. 😡No other consulate comes close to it 👎

Wish you had posted before you applied and I'd have told you just come here free stamp as a Kiwi and then go to a nearby thai consulate to apply for the Non-O visa (where the 90 day visa is actually 2000baht (Vientiane/Savannakhet) or 80USD (Hanoi/HCMC rather than the exhorbitant fee of 15+K baht that the thai consulate there charges 🙁

Also no other consulate (at least not the ones in S/E Asia that you'd go to for that visa requires the health insurance either)

Long story short, you either get the insurance and show them you have it or they won't issue the 90 day Non-O visa 🙁