The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which is believed to be the brainchild of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), started during the era of former President Jerry John Rawlings.
According to him, the Rawlings administration even piloted the scheme in some districts but could not fully implement the policy because it lost the 2000 elections.
The implementation of the NHIS replaced the ‘cash and carry’ system of health delivery in the country.
In 2003, with Mr Kufuor as President of Ghana, the scheme was passed into law to provide equitable access and financial coverage for basic health care services to the Ghanaian population.
But speaking to Class News’ Kwesi Parker-Wilson on the sidelines of a panel discussion of leading members of the NDC as part of the party’s yearlong 25th anniversary celebrations in Accra on Thursday, 8 June 2017, Mr Bagbin said the scheme was conceived by the NDC.
“National Health Insurance was started during the Rawlings era. A whole secretariat was started, research was done, there were reports and there were pilot schemes for the National Health Insurance. We had one in Damongo and Dodowa. We had pilot schemes and some districts even started them before we lost elections in 2000,” he stated, adding: “That was what they [NPP] picked and [were] able to bring the legislation to parliament in 2003 and that they say it’s their creation,” the Nadowli-Kaleo MP said.
According to him, the NDC exists to create a just and equitable society making it the father of Ghana’s democratic experiment.
Source: Classfmonline
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And so........nkwaseaasem...
WHAT A KNEE-JERK COMMENT BY A SO-CALLED SEASONED PARLIAMENTARIAN!!! NEVER AGAIN SHOULD YOU DARE COMPARE CASH AND CARRY THAT KILLED THOUSANDS OF GHANAIANS WITH NHIS!!!!!!
NDC want to take credit for all good policies Kuffour implemented.... We know them... Their probity, transparency and accountability slogan has now become create, l00t and share. Tell us the districts where the programme was piloted. Probably piloted in JJ Rawlings bedroom. Ev!l, greedy and selfish NDC people. I pray this party will disintegrate. They ruled for over 25 years and have nothing to show. The worst is the incompetent John Ford Mahama. When other countries like Kenya are building railway lines he was running across the world to borrow money to build roads at super inflated costs and make noise about them as achievement. Even Acheampong unelected govt performed better than John Mahama's elected govt.
I will give Nobel prize to anyone who can separate NDC from pure stupppidity.
RAWLINGS AND NDC/PNDC HAD 19 SOLID YEARS ON THE THRONE TO IMPLEMENT NHIS BUT RATHER HE CHOSE TO SUPERVISE CORRUPTION, HIGH TAXES, HIGH INFLATION, SLOW GROWTH AND GROSS INCOMPETENCE. ALBAN PLEASE SHUT THE FUCKKKKK UP AND USE YOUR BRAIN.
We know what NDC is capable of doing. What you are talking is just theory. "NDC exists to create a just and equitable society..." You were in power for 8 years and we did not see a just society, so sitting there talking this r*bbish will not get you anywhere
Did he start it in his bedroom? Did YOU not walk out of parliament when the law was being passed? When did the name NHIS come into existence? You can tickle yourself. YOU HAVE LOOTED EVERYTHING IN GHANA AND COLLAPSED EVERYTHING IN SIGHT.