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The policy was authorized in December, 2002 and an announcement was produced by way of the 2003 budget submission to make a wellness fund for the wellness insurance coverage scheme using a National Well being Insurance Levy of 2.5 on consumption goods and hiving off 2.five with the 17.five contributions to the SSNIT fund representing contributions from the formal sector title= ijerph7041855 workers. The technical committee produced a presentation around the draft bill towards the Joint Parliamentary select committees on Well being and Subsidiary Legislation. Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme was lastly introduced in 2004 following the passage with the Act of Parliament, Act 650 of 2003 and Legislative Instrument 1809, 2004. . In 2005 the technical committee moved speedily to expand coverage to 125 districts to undertake preparatory activities to establish full blown district mutual health insurance schemes as GP)In contrast, 1 GP with paediatrics experience mentioned that `we quickly the Act 75, E934 941. 32. Picinato, M.C.; Haber, E.P.; Carpinelli, A.R.; Cipolla-Neto became operative.Political levers influencing policy and design ?Agenda setting Publications in relation to failed fee-for-service policy implementation and practical experience with social healthSeddoh and Akor BMC Public Wellness 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S10 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/S1/SPage 7 ofinsurance schemes offered excellent material to convince people that had been proof inclined. These were translated into policy briefs and flyers in simple language to bring consideration and catalyse discussion among essential stakeholders. There was a deliberate and systematic work by the Committee members to engage believe tanks and civil society organisations such as the Institute of Financial Affairs, the Ghana Medical Association and academic institutions to interrogate and debate the merits of an insurance scheme. The Overall health Partners Summit held twice in a year also became a hassle-free platform for keeping the agenda on the table. Involving 1999 and 2002 the impact of user fees and wellness insurance coverage featured on every wellness summit and was captured in the help memoire of 4 from the summits as the preferred policy. However, to have the well being insurance to turn into a national agenda required far more than academic proof and aide memoirs. It had to become translated in to the realities of your population lived experiences to which the political decision makers and legislators can relate. The technical professionals turned towards the media for help. Mostly, civil servants began exposing the media towards the challenges with the sector. One of the reported concerns inside clinical practice was what became generally known as `medical prisoners'. These had been in-patients who have been cured of their ailment but are becoming detained by well being facilities until their debts had been redeemed by relatives or philanthropists. The uncomfortable effect of those publications led to politicians asking questions about what may be performed to resolve the challenges.Ing the use of SSNIT contributions and VAT. The policy focus was to achieve redistribution of wealth by way of cross-subsidisation and risk-equalisation and for that reason, the approach was to make the scheme universal for each the formal and informal sectors to produce contributions. The technical committee created two presentations at cabinet. Following the very first presentation, a sub-committee of cabinet was constituted to carry out additional evaluation.