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Wow, you know, I've got some other videos coming out I'm making contemporaneously with this one, where basically I'm tired of being right. I called a whole bunch of stuff pertaining to all this new digitization, how it's going to tie together with Thai Immigration and tax and banking and things, and we'll get into that in other videos, but in this one, the main thrust of this video is to discuss the fact it looks like now there is going to be new "features" and I say that in the sort of sense of the phrase, it's a feature not a bug kind of way of saying it, regarding the 90-day Reporting System here in Thailand which apparently is about to become quite honestly a lot more invasive than in my opinion it really needs to be. I mean I understand the reasoning behind the 90-day Reporting System. It's noted in the Immigration Act of 1979, but I don't think anybody that promulgated that legislation at that time had any idea as to what it could be used for down the road. Let's just jump in here. 

I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, that's pattayamail.com, the article is titled: The evolution toward digital sovereignty: Paradigm shifts in Thai Immigration and integrated Big Data governance. Quoting directly: ""If a TDAC filing" - so that's the Thai Digital Arrival Card - "if a TDAC filing indicates a residence in Pattaya but the associated mandatory health insurance lacks regional coverage or flags a history of unpaid medical bills, the system is now programmed to "flag" the profile for manual scrutiny during the 90-day reporting phase." So yeah, look, this is getting to be really Orwellian frankly. The ability to now collate this data, utilize AI to go ahead and cross reference various things, is leading to a situation where 90-day reporting could end up, through the mechanism if you will of 90-day reporting, they are able to scrutinize if somebody has unpaid medical bills, which that is just wild to me. I understand, and if you check out the article and I urge those through who are watching this video go ahead and do that, if you check out the article though, they talk about the medical infrastructure has been strained due to unpaid medical bills. As I have talked about before and now I'll talk about again, and I'm not trying to be overly macabre, one of the issues associated with unpaid medical bills that seems to be constantly overlooked - and meanwhile we get all this Orwellian scrutiny being applied - is the fact that a lot of these unpaid medical bills are from people who pass away; that's just the fact of it. They are foreign nationals who pass away in Thailand, there are unpaid medical bills and it's difficult for the hospitals to collect that, because again they would have to go after a - what we would call a probate estate in the Common Law vernacular - they have to go after that person's estate. Oftentimes by the time that could legally occur, either folks that are other heirs to that estate have taken those funds and moved along, or it's nearly impossible to get a collection because that person may not have had much of an estate here in Thailand. 

So again, the underlying reasoning behind this, the fundamental problem is systemic and probably there would be more gained I would say by reforming certain aspects of Succession Law here in Thailand with regard to the issue of unpaid medical bills, rather than what appears to be a new, far more overreaching if you will, 90-day reporting system than we have seen in the past. Now again, what this may actually look like remains to be seen, so we'll certainly be keeping folks updated on this channel as the situation evolves.