You are here: HomeNewsHealth2014 03 13Article 303177

Capitation will help NHIA contain cost – Health Economist

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (20)

  • Ablade Simon 10 years ago

    and Ghanaians are dying. Common sense is said to be common but never common to the black man. Do you need a white woman to come and tell you this? Fools never learn. After all the incompetence and the thieving at the NHIS, we ...
    read full comment

  • Asamoah 10 years ago

    Ablade, these are the comments which will kill us and our country. must you insult anybody to make your point. That's cheap. Anyway, i have done some work in health insurance systems around the world. i think Ghana is not doi ...
    read full comment

  • Moses 10 years ago

    Sly has only enriched him self and family members in NHIA. He was never rich. What asset? The resources he had at his disposal warranted he did more if he had not chop chop it. shabby reforms to please his people there. P ...
    read full comment

  • Abena 10 years ago

    i think ghana has come too far for the useless criticism the nhis gets. i traveled to my hometown. u shd see how the scheme officers go thru difficulties to ensure u and i go to hospital for free. people even insult them but ...
    read full comment

  • Nana Bee 10 years ago

    Ablade, discuss issues and not personalities...Has the NHIS helped the masses? Does is give hope to those who cant afford childcare? has its coverage increased? what are some of their genuine challenges? can we impress upon g ...
    read full comment

  • Rule of law (Hunter) 10 years ago

    WE ARE FEDUP WITH THIS. IF YOU THINK ITS GOOD WHY ARE YOU DELAYING TO IMPLEMENT IT THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS NOW YOU'RE STILL PILOTING THIS SHIT IN THE ASHANTI REGION ALONE. THIS IS PURE TRIBAL SEGREGATI ...
    read full comment

  • Aego 10 years ago

    Too much talk. Nothing is going on there than pleasing them selves. Sly vested is as SLy as his name. Wicked man!!!

  • Effah 10 years ago

    Hunter, did u hear that the policy is being extended to volta, upper east and upper west? I read that in the news recently and the guy they interviewed made the point that a lot of ground work is normally carried out before t ...
    read full comment

  • Kanfana 10 years ago

    So, capitation is the only way we will see. How about the blotted 7 Months arrears. The CEO is just there to champion his own selfish agenda which he has succeeded in doing anyway. How would a government worth it salt keep ...
    read full comment

  • Asiedu 10 years ago

    u see, u get it wrong. if ministry of finance doesnot release money to the nhia to pay service providers the nhia workers cannot use their pocket moneies to pay. hope u know. i think u shd rather urge govt to be timeous in re ...
    read full comment

  • Dr. 10 years ago

    Listen to joy FM. Even in the upper east region the sickling cell patient are paying for health care. Lets me really and stop politicians issue. The NHIA lack ideas. If you use your monies prudently you will be able to suppo ...
    read full comment

  • Mensah 10 years ago

    NHIA bill could also be influenced by our parliamentarians with brown evelopes. How can they sit down and allow extra cheif 3 chiefs executives . I was in the stake holders meeting and see the wastage going on there. Banbin ...
    read full comment

  • Asamoah 10 years ago

    I recently went to a hospital at kumasi. contrary to the usual snobbish attitude by nurses, i was surprised to see a new customer service approach. I later enquired from a friend why the nurses were so nice to me and I was to ...
    read full comment

  • Kukua 10 years ago

    If it had not been for the nhis i dont know how i would have paid for my hospital bills. so people can say every thing they hope to say, especially those who havent experienced the system. I am grateful for what i got

  • Koren Whitehead, London 10 years ago

    its for all of u...make your voice heard constructively, put forward your ideas constructively, criticise constructively..thats what a developing nation should be doing not pulling yourselves down even more into the pit. Be w ...
    read full comment

  • Kwabla 10 years ago

    Sly, is bullying the workers there. He is like a thin god there. He has cowed everybody there into submission. This is not helping the authority. Bad leadership in the offering.

  • Lobby 10 years ago

    The politics in the NHIA stinks to high heavens. Guys like Andoh Adjei, Rebecca , Asenso Boadi, Abass are the good materials they have. They should have been directors but this sly man who knows next to nothing is a problem. ...
    read full comment

  • Kennedy 10 years ago

    The NHIA is doing his bid with the press. The rot there should have attracted the press.
    The providers too are quiet because they know the deal they have with the authority. The booty is shared that's the truth.

  • The mask 10 years ago

    Everyone with a problem should be able to come up with at least 1 solution. No solution as an answer cannot be accepted.

    The practise where newly sworn-in doctors called house officers are left to experiment with serious m ...
    read full comment

  • Kanawu 10 years ago

    Ghana invests in Health Information technology that will manage claims processing and payment. Otherwise Govt will be paying a blanket payment rate to providers who will have no idea about the level of risk of members.
    Capi ...
    read full comment