President John Mahama has stated that if the opposition New Patriotic Party claims his administration has collapsed the NPP instituted National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) scheme, then the party should stop registering its members.
Obviously, President Mahama has missed the conversation–let’s say the indictment.
While addressing a mini-rally at Kade in the Eastern Region on Tuesday as part of his campaign tour of the region, President Mahama said among other things that, NPP is registering its members onto the scheme though they claim it has collapsed.
“Recently the NPP said the NHIS has collapsed but if you claim NHIS has collapsed why is the NPP registering its supporters onto the scheme? If it has collapsed then what is the benefit of the card? Why are you paying for the NHIS cards for our people? It is has collapsed then stop registering your people,” Mahama said.
He continued: “What is happening is that the NHIS has expanded tremendously.”
“…in 2015 those who used the cards at the hospital were 29 million. When the NHIS was implemented, we were told that the amount being invested could sustain the scheme for 10 years. So from 2005 to 2015 we had to get money to inject into the system so as at 2015 the scheme has expanded that we now have 29 million visitations in 2015 alone.
In 2008 the amount paid facilities who dispensed healthcare to NHIS subscribers was GHc 183 million, in 2015 the amount was paid was over GHc 1 billion. We need more money to invest into the scheme that is why in the NDC manifesto we stated that some of the oil revenue should be injected into the NHIS so that the NHIS would always be in the position to take care of subscribers,” he added.
The NPP has been claiming that the NHIS has become pretty useless–as holding the card does not really fetch you any proper healthcare under the Mahama-led administration.

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