Title: The Insights into Constitutional Amendment Bill (2020): Review of Chapter 9 & 12(National Executive and Public Finance)
Date: 3rd March, 2021
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Venue: Microsoft Teams
RSVP: onditim@ieakenya.or.ke
Post Date: 22 January 2020 | Category: Health | Hits: 1961 |
Out-of-pocket (OOP) payments are spending on health made directly by households. OOP payment introduce financial burden or risk to the household, eating into household budgets. Therefore, efforts towards reduction of OOP, through prepayment mechanism (insurance) government spending, etc. has an impact on increasing affordability and access to health which is key enabler in meeting the constitutional right to the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services for every Kenyan as provided for under Article 43(1).
This short blog provides a comparison of Kenya’s Out-of-pocket spending on health ratio with its regional peers.
In the advent of increased Non-Communicable Diseases such as cancer that require long time treatment, reduction of the Out-of-pocket payments is key in sustaining affordability and access to health care services. These can be achieved through increased insurance both by the government and the private sector.
Number of the Week: 27.7% (Out-of-pocket expenditure on Health)