Rethink new health model to save Kenyans from high medical costs

Many Kenyans are having doubts about the transition fron NHIF to SHIF. [Courtesy, Linkedin]

The Social Health Authority (SHA) was established under the Social Health Insurance Act 2023 and has been positioned to offer social health insurance in a model envisioned to enable Kenya to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC).

The idea behind this programme is that catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure to finance access to healthcare will be a thing of the past, for it engenders poverty, and hence is not sustainable.