Dr. Aboagye Dacosta, the CEO of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), has called former President John Dramani Mahama’s “Mahama Care” program a ripoff of Obamacare.
Ghanaians will regret voting for the former president, he claimed, because he had nothing fresh to give.
According to him, it is our duty as voters to support Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in order to build on the progress made under the New Patriotic Party.
He asserted that the NPP candidate is committed to improving the quality, affordability, and accessibility of healthcare.
To him, voting Mahama back will be a bitter experience for Ghanaians because he is deceiving Ghanaians for power.
“Mahama Care just wants to copy Obama Care in America. But what they forgot is that Obamacare is commercial insurance and not social insurance. The NDC is confused and does not know what to do. The health insurance in Ghana is an optimal care, with its funding derived from taxation. The only thing you have to do is cut the bureaucracies surrounding it because when you take the taxes, it goes to the Consolidated Fund before the Finance Minister writes a letter before you get it.
What we have to do now is reform and allow the money to go directly to the accounts of the NHIS. So what’s the purpose of the Mahama Care? Are you introducing the Mahamacare to compete with the NHIS and will collapse the scheme? I will state categorically that the establishment of the Mahama Care will collapse the NHIS because most of the conditions they are talking about are already being funded by the NHIS.
What is the source of the funding for Mahama Care? He has also promised to scrap the one percent NHIS levy, and when he does that, where do we get those funds? The intention of Mahamacare is to collapse the NHIS. Let us not entertain them because their intention is to collapse the NHIS. They don’t even know what they are doing. They are confused and just want to say something. He copied Obamacare without understanding what it entails.”
The NHIA CEO expressed these views in an interview with Sir Richie on Rainbow Radio 92.4FM, UK.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
