ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), a monument of Ghana’s healthcare reforms since the Fourth Republic in 1993. However, although focused on the program, the presentation ranges beyond the relative confinement of the NHIS. It includes the period before the Fourth Republic back to the early years of Ghana’s independence and a discussion on life beyond the NHIS embodying an argument for Ghana to transition toward a single-payer, tax-funded healthcare system.
