Table 3 Willingness to join a NHIS and preferred design features
Variable | Number (%) |
|---|---|
Support for implementation of compulsory NHIS | |
• Strongly support | 304 (51.4) |
• Support | 246 (41.6) |
• Oppose | 27 (4.6) |
• Strongly oppose | 14 (2.4) |
Total | 591 (100) |
Preferred revenue collecting organization | |
• Public | 306 (51.8) |
• Private | 69 (11.7) |
• A combination of public and private features | 189 (32.0) |
• Don’t know | 27 (4.6) |
Total | 591 (100) |
Design of NHIS contribution rates | |
• All Kenyans should pay equal amounts | 102 (17.3) |
• The rich should pay more than the poor | 275 (46.5) |
• The poor should not pay at all | 205 (34.7) |
• Don’t know | 9 (1.5) |
Total | 591 (100) |
Willing to join NHIS | |
• Yes | 506 (85.6) |
• No | 69 (11.7) |
• Don’t know | 16 (2.7) |
Total | 591 (100) |
Willing to make contributions to support health care for the poorest Kenyans | |
• Yes | 522 (88.3) |
• No | 56 (9.5) |
• Don’t know | 13 (2.2) |
Total | 591 (100) |
Reasons for wanting to join NHIS | |
• Cheap way to access care | 127 (21.5) |
• Free health care for all Kenyans | 343 (58.0) |
• Comprehensive benefit package | 43 (7.3) |
• Compulsory | 41 (6.9) |
• Other | 37 (6.3) |
Total | 591 (100) |