The cabinet has approved a proposal by the Social Security Office (SSO) to double the health care coverage ceiling of people covered by the Social Security Fund. The move is designed to help offset high-cost treatment for work-related injuries or illnesses and to catch up with the rising costs of medical treatment. Approved by the cabinet on Tuesday, the ceiling has been doubled to two million baht and is expected to come into effect in about a month. The regulation is required to solve the problem of medical treatment costs often exceeding the one million baht ceiling in severe injury and illness cases. "It's the Social Security Fund that will shoulder the higher cost of medical treatment for insured employees, while their employers will still contribute the same amount to the fund.

Source: Bangkok Post February 09, 2017 02:30 UTC