ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates the assessment in Chapter 2 of the politics of healthcare in Ghana under the Fourth Republic, exemplified by the NHIS, as suboptimal. The assessment includes the hallmark for good laws, subsumed under good politics. Because of its overriding influence over the other two hallmarks, galvanized by the power of legislative oversight, good politics has the potential to give Ghana the traction on the ground that it needs in its journey toward the service haven of health as human right. Regrettably, the accumulated evidence after nearly three decades under the Fourth Republic, nearly two decades of those expended in experimentation with the NHIS, is that Ghanaian lawmakers have yet to meet this expectation.
