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    "id": 1092135,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1092135/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Murang’a CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 884,
        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": "This Bill seeks to amend the National Hospital Insurance Fund Act of 1998 to establish the National Health Scheme and to ensure that the mandate and the capacity of the National Hospital Insurance Fund, which is famously known as NHIF, will facilitate and deliver the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). This is one of the Big Four agenda item. To my colleagues who normally take to the political podiums to say the Big Four agendas are dead, they need to be in the House at a time like this. I cannot see the yellows. I had seen one before. They need to know that we are still pursuing and those agendas are so much alive. Hon. Speaker, please advise them. The Government of Kenya adopted the UHC as one of the Big Four priority agenda with an aspiration that by 2022, all citizens will have access to quality healthcare services that they need without getting into financial difficulties. For the Government to realise and sustain UHC, there is need for development and implementation of adequate policy, legal and institutional frameworks, including the transformation and repositioning of the national NHIF as the key driver and the strategic choice of health care services for Kenyan residents. Among the key recommendations, there is a proposal to reposition NHIF as a key driver for youth in Kenya, in this amendment. The Bill proposes one of the concepts that is practiced globally, where the private health insurance is the primary player, while the social health insurer becomes the secondary player. This will allow the social insurer to cater for the cost of treatment more comprehensively for the vulnerable population and society with a limited ability to purchase insurance or even health services. If they thoroughly go through this, then we can understand what bottom up means. We are taking care of the vulnerable in the society and so, this is not just theoretical. We are practicing it in this House, and not the one that will be there next year."
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