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Standard bearer of the Democratic National Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has revealed that the free primary health care policy plan captured in the ‘People’s Manifesto’ will cost the nation ¢ 1.4 billion annually.
The former president said he is not discouraged by the cost and has expressed his willingness to implement the policy plan with oil revenue findings as part of the annual budget funding.
With only 40% of the population currently enrolled in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Mahama said the country is unlikely to achieve the goal of the Health-for-All SDGs by 2030, a course that can only be reversed. health for all the politics you have put on the plate.
He unveiled it in a professional dialogue with business owners and professional groups who discussed and interrogated his plans as embodied in the NDC 2020 manifesto.
Many have criticized and questioned the party’s commitment to implementing the policy, failing to implement the one-time premium it promised in the run-up to the 2012 general elections.
Responding to that concern, John Dramani Mahama said the single column salary structure that came into effect in the last days of the former Kufour administration made it difficult to implement the policy.
