Health facility

• The parcel will complement existing UNC Health facilities in Chatham Park and the UNC Health Chatham Hospital in Siler City.
• "We've built a substantial presence at Chatham Park and are delighted to be a part of the growing Chatham Park community as we take this opportunity to expand much-needed medical care for that region," said Janet Hadar, President, UNC Hospitals.
• "We couldn't be more excited to partner with UNC Health," said Julian "Bubba" Rawl, of Preston Development, master developers of Chatham Park.
• The growing healthcare infrastructure at Chatham Park is part of a wide array of services and amenities that will establish Chatham Park as a major residential and economic destination within the region.

• Health insurance has come up as a means to provide subscribers with at least basic healthcare even if they are unable to pay.
• Ghana’s public health insurance programme, the National Health Insurance Scheme, was introduced in 2004.
• (The National Health Insurance Scheme estimated the enrolment rate at end of year 2021 at approximately 54%.)
• One motivation for subscribing to the National Health Insurance Scheme would be if non-subscribers made higher out-of-pocket payments for healthcare than subscribers.
• Contrary to expectation, our research found that Ghana’s national health insurance did not reduce out-of-pocket payments for those who had subscribed.

Why enrolment doesn’t pay

• The National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana has historically been bedevilled by several challenges in practice.
• Previous research has reported that it is not uncommon for health facilities to charge both formal and informal fees even to insured clients.
• Health facilities prefer to attend to patients who pay for treatment in cash rather than those who rely on their national health insurance policy to pay.

Some positive news

• There were some positive findings from our research, however.
• We found that very poor households were more likely to enrol in health insurance than other households.

What should be done?

If provider facilities did not discriminate against patients on the basis of who was willing to make a cash payment, and enrolled members did not have to buy the medicines they needed, people would be confident in using their insurance policies and might spend less out of pocket. That might rake in more scheme members, which would increase the financial base of the scheme to keep it running effectively.

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