Charles Mensah

A Review of the National Health Insurance Scheme and the Possibility of a Single Premium for a Decade Charles Mensah

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, printed single-sided, grade: -, - (UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES - FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES), course: ACTUARIAL SCIENCE, language: English, abstract: The research reviewed the National Health Insurance Scheme and accessed the possibility of a single premium for decade. The whole research had its foundations from the specific objectives which were; to access the possibility of a single premium for a decade that is feasible enough to sustain the scheme, to identify alternative means of generating income to sustain the Kassena- Nankana District Mutual Health Scheme and to assess the perception of registered and potential clients on the NHIS. The research design employed was statistical survey and both qualitative and quantitative data were collected from a sample of fifty respondents. The research study has its justification from the current government's intention to implement a single premium system for the NHIS. The main hypothesis that "A single premium is feasible to improve healthcare in Ghana" was accepted with some few actuarial assumptions being made. The research findings emphasized the inclusion of age distribution as key variable to avoid all ages paying the same premium. Problem like moral hazards was addressed in this study and advocacy was suggested as a way of curbing it down. The administrative and accounting systems of NHIS must be fully computerized to help reduce the stress of working manually. Advocacy was also suggested as a solution to the problem of clients going for medications for non registered clients with their NHIS card. Keywords; Insurance, Single premium, Health Inurance, Premium.