It has been almost two years since UHCA organised a workshop on the issue of social health insurance. The concept is extraordinarily complex, both technically and politically, and countries as diverse as the United States and Uganda have found it difficult to master.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise, then, that the Ugandan government has been unable to overcome political opposition to the plan it proposed at that UHCA workshop in April 2008. But the Government has not given up. Here are some resources that provide useful background on the issue.
On 25 February, Evelyn Lirri reported in the Daily Monitor that the government is starting over on the issue. It's earlier proposal would have limited insurance coverage initially to civil servants and expanded it only gradually to cover the whole society after 15 years. But, Lirri reported, the new proposal will seek to provide coverage at the outset to people in the informal sector.
