More than 300 state hospitals face debt crisis
More than 300 state hospitals are facing a financial crisis with debts totalling more than Bt4 billion, Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit said Friday.
The crisis is affecting hospital management and medical services, he said.
The ministry estimated 77 state hospitals faced a serious financial crisis with debts totalling Bt1.3 billion, while 227 faced moderate losses worth about Bt2.7 billion. Most of the affected institutions are general hospitals, central hospitals and rural hospitals.
Source - The Nation
Comment - Not as rosy as they would have everyone believe, plus the waiting times and 'in a nut shell' the health care system here is massively over subscribed (like many countries, I guess), especially heart related problems. I visited the Queen's heart hospital in Khon Kaen which does the 30 baht scheme etc as the father-in-law is on Warfarin and had his operation done there, can't move inside for people waiting everyday, we got there at 08:30 in the morning and his ticket number was 127 already by then, must be seeing 500 or so people everyday. No wonder places like BBK hospital do so well.
Thai state hospitals in huge debt crisis
Thai state hospitals in huge debt crisis
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Re: Thai state hospitals in huge debt crisis
This may be something that Thaksin did well, and the current government let fall though the cracks by not continuing the funding properly. (Spite? 
) It's 'the devil you know'...when it comes to waiting an entire day in a lobby, or not going to see a Doc at all. At 30 Baht it urges people to try to get care. If like before the 30 Baht plan, just stay home and eventually die sooner.
The current mob are doing themselves no favours by letting these things happen, resulting in press releases like this. All it does is entrench the Red Shirts even deeper and convince them any reconciliation is double talk and a delaying tactic, hoping they'll go away.
We just talked about New Year's accidents and MC helmets, knee jerk reactions. At the moment and what has been made public, I can't see that their so called reconciliation plan is any different. Wait long enough and the problem will go away. Back to the future.
Pete 
) It's 'the devil you know'...when it comes to waiting an entire day in a lobby, or not going to see a Doc at all. At 30 Baht it urges people to try to get care. If like before the 30 Baht plan, just stay home and eventually die sooner.The current mob are doing themselves no favours by letting these things happen, resulting in press releases like this. All it does is entrench the Red Shirts even deeper and convince them any reconciliation is double talk and a delaying tactic, hoping they'll go away.
We just talked about New Year's accidents and MC helmets, knee jerk reactions. At the moment and what has been made public, I can't see that their so called reconciliation plan is any different. Wait long enough and the problem will go away. Back to the future.
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Re: Thai state hospitals in huge debt crisis
Something Thaksin did well? This is a popular implementation of a system for the poor that was doomed to fail from the very beginning and he knew it. But of course it was a political smart move. He got all the votes from the poor people "who he cared for" and now he can blame his opponents for messing his 30-baht scheme up.
In the western countries the whole (semi)free medical care system has collapsed and every year the list of treatments and medication that are no longer paid for gets longer and longer.
How can anybody in his right mind try to implement such thing in a country where nobody pays tax because they are either too poor or too rich to do so.
In the western countries the whole (semi)free medical care system has collapsed and every year the list of treatments and medication that are no longer paid for gets longer and longer.
How can anybody in his right mind try to implement such thing in a country where nobody pays tax because they are either too poor or too rich to do so.
We are all living in 'the good old days' of the future.