{"id":987521974,"date":"2021-05-07T03:10:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/health-insurance-likely-to-be-more-expensive-this-year-as-the-pandemic-increases-healthcare-costs\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:35:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:35:28","slug":"health-insurance-likely-to-be-more-expensive-this-year-as-the-pandemic-increases-healthcare-costs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/health-insurance-likely-to-be-more-expensive-this-year-as-the-pandemic-increases-healthcare-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance likely to be more expensive this year as the Pandemic increases healthcare costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>Health insurance premiums are expected to grow 1.59 percent this year amid worries over the Covid-19 outbreak says the Thai Insurance Commission with&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span>total premiums expected to rise to Bt101 billion in 2021, compared to Bt99 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p>Uncertainty over the Covid-19 outbreak has triggered demand for health insurance policies among&nbsp;customers with high purchasing power.&nbsp;Private companies&nbsp;are offering&nbsp;new health insurance policies&nbsp;which cover medical treatment, physical therapy, medical check-up, and vaccination, with premiums starting at Bt15,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>This can potentially increase healthcare expenditure for the general population amid loss of livelihood and a lack of social health protection.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from the new report originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationthailand.com\/news\/30401308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Nation Thailand<\/a>.&nbsp;Read the entire report&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationthailand.com\/news\/30401308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/s.abcnews.com\/images\/International\/thailand-cave-hospital-left-gty-ps-180711_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abc News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say social health protection in Thailand? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance premiums are expected to grow 1.59 percent this year amid worries over the Covid-19 outbreak says the Thai Insurance Commission with&nbsp;total premiums expected to rise to Bt101 billion in 2021, compared to Bt99 billion last year. Uncertainty over the Covid-19 outbreak has triggered demand for health insurance policies among&nbsp;customers with high purchasing power.&nbsp;Private&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987531546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987531546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}