A Comparative Study of the Health Insurance Fund Operations between Non–Nhon Subdistrict and Bung Mai Municipality, Ubon Ratchathani Province

Abstract

The aim of this research were to1) study the comparison of the health insurance
fund operations between Non-NhonSubdistrictAdministration Organization (SAO) and Bung
Mai Municipality, WarinChamrap District, UbonRatchathani Province, 2) analyze whether the
success or failure of the health insurance fund operations of Non-Nhon SAO and Bung Mai
Municipality and 3) propose the solution of the health insurance fund operations of Non-
Nhon SAO via purposive sampling method and the data was gathered by using the depthinterview,
participant observation and focus group as tools of data collection, the data
analysis was conducted by the committees from 2 organizations above mentioned, data
was analyzed by using the documents and classifying the data according to the objective of
this study and also was analyzed by using the conclusion of main ideas from study, from
the research, it was found that
The health insurance fund operations of Non-Nhon SAO was lack of the capability
of management in term of people participation, it failed to stimulate them pay more
attention to their health because people were lack of motivation and interest in the
participation,they understood that the health insurance fund operations of Non-Nhon SAO
was less necessary for their daily life, moreover the committees understood that the
operations were just the routine job, and they were never changed, thus the operations
were proceeded just for reaching the end of operations according to the fixed time, and
when compared with the health insurance fund operations of Bung Mai municipality, it was
found that Bung Mai municipality promoted and supported people participation and
motivate them pay more attention to their health in order to propose the projects
consistent with 4 main activities, it was also found that the main problems which effected
on the success or failure of the health insurance fund operations, it depended on the
capability and intention of committees therefore, the recruitment of fund committees
which did not came from the public transparently, it was the main cause for the failure of
health insurance fund operations.