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    "id": 1092603,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Forgive me, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was just thanking you for giving me this opportunity in my mother tongue of Maasai . I rise to support the Bill. I congratulate the Departmental Committee on Health as well as the Mover, Hon. Wangwe, our Majority Whip, for the National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill, 2021. Kenyan millionaires and even billionaires are one disease away from poverty. You may be rich today, but after an attack of COVID-19 or cancer, whether you die or not, you will leave your family in poverty because of the exorbitant prices charged in our hospitals. Many Kenyans suffering from terminal illnesses are entering stages where they may not be able to handle the diseases because healthcare bills are prohibitive. Even treatable and minor diseases that can be treated with just a dose of antibiotics or anti-protozoa medicine become untreatable because the bills are just too scary. Sometimes when people go to hospital even for a simple disease like gonorrhoea, they are prescribed antibiotics to take for three or five days, but because of the price of the drugs, they take them for one or two days and the bacteria develop resistance. These are some of the things we encounter when we lack an elaborate insurance system for our citizens."
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