Research Article
Willingness to Pay for Social Health Insurance and Its Predictors among Government Employees in Mujja Town, Ethiopia
Table 2
Health status and healthcare utilization of the government employees in Muja town, northeast Ethiopia, 2016 (nā=ā375).
| | Variable | Category | Frequency | Percent |
| | Preferences of treatment seeking during illness | Governmental health facility | 265 | 70.7 | | Private health facility | 78 | 20.8 | | Traditional healers | 32 | 8.5 |
| | Chronic disease in the family | Yes | 30 | 8 | | No | 345 | 92 |
| | Payment management | Government | 89 | 23.7 | | Own money | 248 | 66.1 | | Borrowed | 38 | 10.2 |
| | History of difficulty to cover medical bill(s) | No | 238 | 63.5 | | Yes | 137 | 36.5 |
| | Confidence to afford the care they need during illness | Yes | 235 | 62.7 | | No | 140 | 37.3 |
| | Having other source to cover medical bill | Yes | 95 | 25.3 | | No | 280 | 74.7 |
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