Although health care in Botswana is highly subsidized and mainly financed through government taxes (68 %), 4.2% of the households still pay out of pocket exposing them to the risk of catastrophic health expenditures. In Botswana, 83% of the general population and 58% of employed individuals do not have medical aid coverage (Mbogo & McGill, 2016). This illustrates gaps in the country’s health financing policy towards achieving UHC goals. In this study, the authors explored perspectives on employed individuals regarding financing population based health care interventions towards UHC in order to make recommendations to the Ministry of Health on health financing options.
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