4.1. Context, content, actors, and process in the development of the
NSSF voluntary health insurance policy
This section presents the findings of the three sources of data as
validated in Phase II of the study.
The timeline below presents the chronological progress of the
NSSF voluntary insurance system from 1963 to 2012.
4.1.1. Context
Findings revealed that the development of the NSSF voluntary
health policy was triggered by an urgent event, namely the MEA
company restructuring project, which appears to be a political crisis
unrelated to health policy. TheMEA has been suffering from a critical
financial situation of USD330millionworth of debt,which could have
led to the shutdown of the company