My country is proposing to introduce a National Health Insurance Scheme to which every resident shall be compelled to join over a 15 years period after it is inaugurated. While this is being planned, it is important to note that since 2001, the country has been implementing a "free" health care policy in public healthcare facilities; and whereas every body here in Uganda acknowledges the fact that the policy has not achieved its objectives, it remains popular especially to the rural folks who instead want the Government to make it work rather than scrap it off. The formal sector and urban folks on the contrary are divided with some favoring the tax funded health care policy for all and others preferring a more liberal health sector with both free and paid for services.
As we head into the polls next year (2016), it remain very clear that we are going to be promised free health care as opposed to the National Health Insurance Scheme where lots of resources have already been spent to develop a bill.
It will be interesting to see what happens after the elections are done.
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