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Table 4 Household willingness to contribute towards subsidised CHF membership for the poor (%)

From: Household perceptions towards a redistributive policy across health insurance funds in Tanzania

Questions

N

Not willing

Not sure

Willing

CHF households

Are you willing to continue membership if poor members of the community are allowed to join the CHF without paying the contribution?

233

21.7

5.6

73.3

Are you willing to increase your contribution so that poor members of the community are allowed to join the CHF without paying the contribution?

233

44.4

10.7

45.1

NHIF households

Given the choice, are you willing to allow the NHIF scheme to use member contributions to provide additional funds to schemes with poor members?

224

31.7

9.4

59.1

Given the choice, will you be willing to allow part of NHIF funds to be used for paying the contribution on behalf of poorer members of the community in order to enable them to join a health insurance scheme?

224

38.8

11.2

49.1

Non-member households

Are you willing to join the CHF scheme if poor members of the community are allowed to join without paying the contribution?

238

5.5

3.8

90.7

Are you willing to join the CHF scheme and pay higher contribution to enable the poor to join without paying the contribution?

238

6.7

8.8

83.7