Govt renews Bt30 health scheme

People granted with exemption of fee will still enjoy their rights, such as old and disabled people or children under 12, he said. He said the National Health Security Office, who regulates the scheme now adopted as a national healthcare service, would decide later what benefits people would get from paying Bt30.

The recollection of Bt30 is seen rather as a ploy to discredit the Democrat Party, which stopped collecting the fee when it took power. The Bt30 universal heathcare scheme was initiated by fugitive prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is the defactor leader of Pheu Thai Party which heads the current government and an archrival to the Democrats.