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Hi folks,

what kind of health insurance for South-East Asia can you recommend?

Are you an expat or traveling or on holiday ?

what do you consider, affordable?

Personally, I self insure and self medicate.
has worked fine

Lol, I got Miller fisher syndrome while I was in Cambodia without insurance. The only hospital that had ivig in Cambodia was royal Phnom Penh and they wanted 1k a bottle. I went to Vietnam where the price was 170. So yeah, get insurance, one that will pay for a hospital outside of Cambodia if needed. A 450 dollar ambulance to Vietnam saved me ~80k.

Is it possible / feasible to get med-evac to Singapore? Or is Thailand / Bangkok the only real sensible option?

I ask as I already have coverege in SG....

I was recently looking at expat health insurance. Nothing came in under about $200/month. It's crazy considering travel insurance only costs AUD $700/year. And tourists are much more likely than expats to partake in risky activities, IMO.

All I want is emergency and medevac cover in case of a serious injury or illness. But no-one seems to offer that. Big gap in the market? Maybe there is an opportunity there for one of the insurers?

What about A+, operating out of the himawari?

I have a Globality policy, includes med-evac. In the event of med-evac I think the shortest distance is preferable so Bangkok would be my choice.
It's valid valid worldwide excluding North America.

No medical required if you are under 55 (good luck to them with that)

$163 a month via AG Cambodia in the Himawari complex. Best money I spend each month.

At the time of writing I have a mate who is booking a flight home to London tonight after being diagnosed with Apendicitis this morning.
Fuck that...

I have a $1.2 million USD cover medical policy with medical evac as required, with David Shield. cost at my age (60) is about $180 per month.

what about Regency? Any experience with them?