Health Insurance
The re-establishment of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) as a fully-fledged comprehensive national Health Insurance scheme, covering all Kenyans and to which those who can afford have to contribute to is one of the key areas of focus by the government in the Social Health component. Others include the establishment of a medical frame work to provide access to essential health care benefit package, including maternal care and HIV related diseases for those unable to contribute to the national fund; adopt the required measures to extend an improved range of benefits compulsorily provided for by NHIF, including outpatient care, specialized treatment and quality assurance, sickness benefits and mandated post –retirement health cover. Further, the government will also seek to establish a health insurance regulator to improve standard setting; provide a supportive framework for private sector participation in healthcare and define the role, place and function of medical benefit (insurance schemes) in relation to the NHIF and government interventions in health care.
The government will work with partners and all other stakeholders to executive the above plans, subject to the operationalization of the National SP policy.
Website: www.nhif.or.ke