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The National Health Insurance Scheme was founded as one of the key pillars of the Poverty Reduction Programme of government.
The scheme, so far, has lived up to this responsibility. It remains the best and most secure social welfare package that the state is providing its citizens today.
It is operating in 145 local government administrative areas. It has members in every city, town and village in the country.
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was introduced in 2003 by the National Health Insurance Act, 2003, Act 650 with the view to improving financial access of Ghanaians, especially the poor and the vulnerable, to quality basic health care services.
Under the NHIS, the rich subsidizes the poor, the healthy subsidizes the sick and the economically active pays for children, the aged and the indigents.
It is a social policy, a kind of social re-engineering that caters for the most vulnerable in the society through the principle of equity, solidarity, risk sharing, cross-subsidization, re-insurance, subscriber/ community ownership, value for money, good governance and transparency in the health care delivery.
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