Willingness to Pay for Social Health Insurance and Its Predictors among Government Employees in Mujja Town, Ethiopia

Table 5

Factors associated with willingness to pay for SHI among government employees in Muja town, northeast Ethiopia, 2016 (n = 375).

Variable/category	WTP		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95%)
	Yes	No
Ever heard about SHI
Yes	36 (66.7)	18 (33.3)	4.114 (2.231, 7.587)	7.205 (1.385, 37.475)
No	105 (32.7)	216 (67.3)	1	1
Having other source to cover medical bill
Yes	12 (12.6)	83 (87.4)	0.169 (0.088, 0.324)	0.074 (0.009, 0.612)
No	129 (46.1)	151 (53.9)	1	1
History of difficulty to cover medical bill
Yes	102 (74.5)	35 (25.5)	1	1
No	39 (16.4)	199 (83.6)	0.067 (0.040, 0.113)	0.054 (0.011, 0.257)

Those variable(s) statistically associated at binary logistic regressing with and entered to the final model were as follows: being heard about SHI, believing that insurance is similar to monthly saving, having other sources to cover a medical bill, history of difficulty to cover their medical bill, and having a chronic disease in the family. value <0.001 and value <0.005.