ABSTRACT
This chapter critically assesses the extent to which healthcare delivery in Ghana, under the country’s Fourth Republic, exemplified by the National Health Insurance Scheme, meets the strictures of health as human right. The lesson is that it is difficult to get into Stage 3 of Ghana’s healthcare debate, on health as human right, without first resolving the complex issues of access and sustainability regarding the NHIS. Put differently, to stand a chance at health as human right, Ghana’s leaders must first get the politics, law, and economics of healthcare delivery in the country right. The aim of this chapter is to explain this proposition.
