The main reason why most of lao people floating into Thailand's Hospital is because they got the best equipe with Doctors and Technology than Laos... Way better than our country Laos. We all knew that but don't assume is free. Lao people probably pay more than Thai citizens.
And as for PDR government, they have too many Doctors in Parliament ( SaPa Kafe) and by the time they done with analyzing your and my Sytoms, we would probably have been death by then.... I'm not joking DUDE.