We examine economic vulnerability to illness when, as for informal sector workers in Thailand, there is universal coverage for health care but earnings losses are uninsured. Even with comprehensive health care entitlement, severe illness that strikes an initially healthy worker is found to raise...

Liver transplantation in children is an expensive health service excluded from the benefit package of the universal coverage (UC) scheme, which covers 47 million of Thais. Its high costs and exclusion from the UC benefit package prevent poor biliary atresia (BA) patients from access to such...

The purpose of this report is to advise the Thai government and Thai society at large about the full range of benefits, costs, and consequences that are likely to result from the decision to expand public provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) through National Access to Antiretroviral Program...