Health Insurance

Can anyone really insure his/her health? I once told an aquaintance of mine in Nigeria about health insurance and he told me there can never be anything called health insurance.

Not long after that I started to rationalise that his words were true. At least we humans often get sick. Many people in Asia and Africa cannot afford three meals a day, let alone take up a health insurance. Man has has had his own share of pain and suffering.

In places like U S A, people are more familiar with health insurance because standard of living in those countries have inmproved a lot. What many poor Africans hope to achieve, which is usually a dream remains the everyday items or pruducts of enjoyment for the average Western citizen.

Recently, however, the same friend of mine came to me to admit that now he knows about health insurance. This means that Africa is catching up with the rest of the world, albeit slowly.