Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and  International Hospital offer top Medical care   

Bangkok Pattaya Hospital and Pattaya International hospital are vastly superior to most American Hospitals

by Jack Corbett

$50.00 a day and just $25.00 for  nursing, it's cheaper to stay at Pattaya International Hospital and Bangkok Pattaya Hospital than in most  U.S. hotels. Check out Pattaya Bangkok Hospital and Internationsal Hospital. It is time to seriously consider Thailand Hospitals for that next operation.

One of the best things about Thailand is the health care system, which for an American or other foreigner (to the Thais) of means is far superior and cheaper to what awaits him in his home country. How can this be? Certainly the U.S. has the best health care system in the world for those who can afford it? And Thailand is a Third World Country having doctors and hospitals that are okay if you have a broken bone or a cold, but don't you dare having anything more seriously wrong with you. America is the best in the world and you'd better damn well be proud of being lucky enough be born here and of having our great doctors and hospitals here to take good care of you. Well, don't believe it. You are much better off getting sick or injured in Thailand, and the only reason you might think the U.S. has a decent health care system is propaganda, because that's all it is, a big huge lie, our government, our insurance companies, our lawyers, our pharmaceutical companies, and our doctors hope you will continue swallowing so that you can continue to pay for their inflated salaries and wages. Truth is, health care in the U.S. isn't worth a shit, and all Americans better get used to hanging their heads in shame because of it.

Example in point--first week I'm in Pattaya for my last visit, which would last for two months, I'm going out with a Thai girl named Rose. Well Rose develops a nasty throat infection which she exhibits by a cough that just never seems to get better. Her one room apartment which she shares with another girl has no air-conditioning. The two girls remain relatively cool because the place has good cross ventilation due to good placement of the place's windows and a fan they have placed in the middle of their floor. But when Rose stays with me at Skytop she is immediately subjected to the ravages of the air conditioner. Coming in and out of the heat exacts a toll. I believe she's got bronchitis.

One morning we are having breakfast at the Sunset Café. Its owner, Greg, is sitting next to her. Rose finally tells me: "I think I should see doctor." And Greg replies--"there's a doctor's office right next door. After paying my bill, Rose and I enter the doctor's office. No one else is in the place and she is immediately waited on by the attendant. Within five minutes of our arrival a female doctor has appeared wastes little time, checking Rose's blood pressure on the spot in the waiting room. Moments later the doctor is finished. She then goes into a room leaving the door half way open as she starts to prepare the syringe. Five minutes later, the doctor's got Rose into a chair in the room as she injects the antibiotic into her upper arm. Moments later the doctor is finished. Taking Rose back out into the waiting room, the doctor finds several bottles of what I assume are antibiotics, puts them into a small bag and sends us on our way after collecting eight dollars from me.

Now here's what would have happened in the U.S. First, Rose and I would have had to wait an hour or two before she could even see a doctor--that is, if we got lucky. Chances are we would have had to wait for a day or two for an appointment. The doctor would have then seen Rose and then prescribed an antibiotic. I would have paid eighty or a hundred dollars for the appointment. Then we would have had to find a pharmacy, then waited at least twenty minutes while the pharmacist prepared the prescription. I would have then paid another fifty dollars or more for the prescription. Rose would have then had to start taking her medicine orally since the doctor had not given her an injection in his office, believing that at some later date Rose would wind up suing him for malpractice because of a dirty needle or because Rose was allergic to needles or the prescription.

In the form of an injection given within ten minutes of our walking into the Thai doctor's office, Rose's treatment started immediately with the healing process starting as soon as the antibiotic started to hit her bloodstream. Immediate service combined with the quickest and most effective solution to her problem at a cost advantage of just eight bucks out of my pocket compared to say $150 in the U.S. much better care from Thailand at less than 1/10th the cost.

One month later, Big Daddy injured his ribs in a scuba diving accident. On my recommendation Big Daddy went to the emergency room at Pattaya International Hospital where he got prompt service. The doctors x-rayed him, and did whatever else they do to check out a guy they suspect of having cracked ribs. They fitted him out with a corset he could wear for some relief, then gave him muscle relaxants and other drugs, including medication with codeine. I wonder if they even prescribe such things in the U.S. anymore, not because of a drug's effectiveness or non-effectiveness but just because of the possibility that the patient will later sue the hospital or doctor for giving him medication that he got addicted to.

In Thailand they don't care simply because it's practically unheard of for someone to sue another person or institution for negligence. This is because in Thailand, there is actually such a thing as individual responsibility. Run into the path of a speeding car and get killed, the Thais will just laugh at you for acting like a dumb rabbit. Fall into a deep hole full of water and drown and just try having your family sue someone for not posting that the hole is dangerous. The way the Thais see it, it's your fault for stumbling into the hole. You should have been looking more closely. To make a long story short, Big Daddy's hospital bill came out to less than $100.00 U.S. In the states he would have wound up paying $1000 to $3,000.

If you are used to paying $4000 for a year's health insurance in the U.S. expect to only pay around $750.00 here for better coverage. So let’s look at the prognosis for someone like me as he approaches his sixties and what Thailand offers in health care versus the U.S.

In the U.S. my deductible is $5000 and for this I must pay $300 a month or $3600 per year. And this premium is going up 20 % every year. Say I wind up in the hospital for a small operation–hernia, hemorrhoid. Anything. I’m going to be out the $5,000 out of pocket–just like that because in U.S. hospitals today costs accelerate to a tune that is beyond what is reasonable. So...for that year, my health care costs would be at least $8600 which is the sum of my deductible and premium payments.

Now I don’t know about you but I don’t care to take it up the ass. My farm is in jeopardy. If I don’t pay any and all medical bills no matter how bogus, no matter how unreasonable, the medical institution will ultimately get a judgement against my farm and I will be forced to sell it. And there goes my ability to earn an income. And there’s plenty of lawyers ready and willing to help steal my farm from me.

Steal–-what steal my farm? Yes. Damn right. Because if you don’t have anything–if you don’t have a decent job in this country, you are still going to get medical care and you will not have to pay your bills simply because the medical institution treating you is unable to squeeze juice out of a dried turnip. So the cost for treating such indigents is passed onto loyal law abiding citizens such as me.

I just went into my doctor’s office the other day to get a report filled out so I could get my Thailand retirement visa. I was amazed at seeing all the paper pushers this office had milling about or sitting at desks filling out insurance forms, patient’s reports, documents covering doctors’ asses to show that they had taken all precautions so that no mistakes could later be attributed to them in a law suit later pressed by their patients. I am willing to bet there were at least a dozen paper pushers in that office, which is far more than the number of nurses and nurses supplying the health care needed.

Call this the price exacted by lawyers. Or the anti rape defense system employed by my doctor’s office which is high priced and otherwise unnecessary clerical work hired to keep the doctors banks accounts from being destroyed by bank account marauding patients and lawyers looking for a quick and easy buck.

But the U.S. has done nothing about the fact that out of every 14 jobs held by lawyers only one of them is necessary. The other 13 represent lawyers and their clients stealing from the very society that spawned them. They have destroyed the health care system of the U.S. as a viable going concern. Entire hospitals have been forced to close down. Even Mutual of Omaha has been forced to close down its health insurance line simply because it could not keep up with the spiraling out of control costs in meeting claims. The average doctor in the state of Illinois has to pay between $60,000 and $160,000 just to pay his malpractice premiums and across the entire nation doctors are getting out of the health care business long before they would have chosen to retire back in the good old days. Meanwhile doctors are telling their sons and daughters not to study medicine because of the huge risks to everything they will have worked for because of a single malpractice lawsuit and the sheer ongoing pain and frustration caused upon them by all the bureaucracy I’ve been describing.

Americans have failed. We need not blame this one on the government because the government is us. Americans have not risen to the plate to correct these abuses to the medical system either because of ignorance, complacency or the greed that manifests itself by the willingness of so many of us to sue sue sue when the windfall seems to be all ours just for the asking. And I don’t have to submit to getting raped by all these lawyers, or by our high priced medical system that has allowed itself to get so unaffordable or by all of my fellow Americans who have stood idly by and allowed this to happen. I have a choice, and that choice is to get much better medical care at very affordable costs in Thailand. There really is no other intelligent alternative.