What do you think. IF they get rid of Thai Pass and test & go does that indicate the health insurance requirement will most likely be dropped too?
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The discussion revolves around whether the potential removal of the Thai Pass and Test & Go will also lead to the lifting of the health insurance requirement for travelers to Thailand. Various comments indicate that health insurance was only mandatory for NON-OA visa holders before the pandemic, suggesting that if the COVID-related entry requirements are dropped, the health insurance requirement might be eliminated as well, though many participants emphasize the importance of having travel insurance regardless.
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, yes, my guess is that the requirement for insurance will be the very last to be lifted. Anyway, you can get workable insurance for less than 1,000 THB.
, nothing so far indicating that all restrictions will be lifted on 1 May. To hope for that is more than optimistic. What will actually be lifted by 1 May no one knows for sure until a few days before.
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Yes absolutely. That's already been indicated. However, you're well advised to purchase travel insurance anyway, voluntarily.
Agree. Most of us pay cash for health care excepting the required Covid19 coverage.Non-Imm O-A visa has required health insurance for the last three or four years.
travel insurance for what? I understand health insurance but really paying a 10% premium on top of the cost of the trip seems like a good idea only if 1 out of 5 trips get goofed.
You can tag me 100x more and say no. I will always say officially you needed to be insured. Maybe you don't know but many things are written somewhere but nobody enforces it
No you give up. It was an official requirement before. You needed to be insured as tourist. As I said nobody checked. But it was mentioned in the entry requirements. Period
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William, yeah I'm not sure I'd want to pay for a coronary bypass with cash rather than insurance, but as you say only O-A visa holders were ever required to have it pre Covid.
Completely agree. The requirements for health insurance started late last decade for nonimmigant O-A visa. Required Covid19 health insurance began just after the pandemic began. Health care is extremely affordable paying with cash…even a coronary bypass !
Yes you did. You needed to be insured. Period. Officially. As tourist aswell.
Maybe for O-A visa they checked if you really have one or not
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Normal travel insurance is cheaper than the Thai covid options
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Which is why you shouldn't come to Thailand until after the requirements are scrapped. That way you won't have to worry about what your company does or doesn't want to do.
If your only coming for a holiday you only need to pay insurance for the time you are in Thailand
I would rather pay for both that get sick or have a accident out of my home country then try to find the money to bay medical etc in Thailand or anywhere else in the world other than my home country
we have great international insurance through BCBS have used it a lot since in Thailand. But Thailand doesn’t accept it for “Covid” insurance coverage.
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Mark Evans. Haha! Define "normal travel insurance". I have friends who came to Thailand on a Sainsbury's travel insurance policy! If your travel insurance doesn't cover a miserable $20,000 including Covid, you really believe it's worthwhile having? 🤣🤣🤣
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You’ve got to be stupid not to have travel insurance
Yes I know that was the whole point of my post. The insurance is $1200 for the two of us so if they first they take away that requirement I will not have to buy that because our Visa needs to be extended by May 16. Hence the whole reason for my post
I agree, we have always bought travel insurance when we left Australia to holiday overseas, your insurance in your home country only covers you when your in your home country.
I have seen and heard of so many people get into trouble when there had an accident whilst out of the own country
we have great insurance from the USA Blue Cross Blue Shield but Thailand won’t accept it as they won’t issue specific letter saying the cover Covid but the actually do!!
we have great insurance from the USA Blue Cross Blue Shield but Thailand won’t accept it as they won’t issue specific letter saying the cover Covid but the actually do!!
been this way for over a month now. I have advised hundreds of travelers and not one ever said I was wrong. Even the international manager of Piyavate Hospital said it back in early March, “a health policy works. “Since then, I have said the same.