Health Insurance or Managed care is the provision of a defined set of health care services to an enrolled population at affordable cost by a net work of healthcare providers who are responsible for cost containment and improvement of health outcome .It involves the pooling of resources and the sharing of risk.

The community health Insurance Scheme, (Health is wealth) is a method of pooling of resources by the different socio-economic group where the sick and the non sick, the rich and the poor, adult and children, women and men come to cater for the health need of each other. It tends to protect the people by paying for all or some of their healthcare need and protect paying high treatment cost in the event of sickness
The advantage

• Immediate access to quality medical care nationwide including emergencies, out of station illness and specialist referral
• No consultation or registration fee or deposit payment before medical attention
• Low medical cost due to pooling together of numerous risk exposure
• Maternity care provided  from antenatal to post natal including the cost of deliveries
• Accident and emergency care in any of our designated hospitals irrespective of your location
• Migrating from out of pocket  payment care model to a community risk sharing model
• Ensure equitable access to quality assured health care system and infrastructure
• Exclusion of poverty as a barrier to  receiving health care
• Improve the quality of life of the people
• Creates an environment populated by healthy and prosperous people