ABSTRACT
This research project raises some fundamental issues in
health care financing strategies variously tried by the government
and have all failed to achieve the desired objectives. Against
which the National Health Insurance Scheme become an
alternative to healthcare financing mechanism.
Some of the issues discussed in this project include:
1. How is healthcare financed
2. What is National Health Insurance Scheme
3. Objective of the Scheme
4. Concept and design of the scheme
5. Formal sector social health insurance programme
6. Rural community social health insurance programme
7. Urban self-employed social health insurance programme.
8. Permanently disabled persons social health insurance
programme
9. Children under five social health insurance
10. Prison inmates social health insurance programme
How does the programme works?
12. Health care providers (HCP)
13. Primary health care provider
14. Fee-for-service healthcare provider
15. Health Maintenance Organization
16. Provider payment system
17. Operating the system
18. Prospects
19. Problems
- The Nigerian Factors
- Moral Hazards
- Cream skimming
- Quality assurance
20. Health care funding options
21. Accessibility
22. Monitoring and Evaluation and Policy target
These issues are not exhaustive but can be further explored
in the various groups.
