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    "id": 1095078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Edith Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to support the NHIF (Amendment) Bill. Most Kenyans are neither aware of the NHIF nor can they afford to pay its premiums. So, this calls for the NHIF to popularise itself and make Kenyans aware of what it offers because there are very many Kenyans who are not aware of it. The other thing about the NHIF is that during the Coronavirus period, the NHIF has paralysed the activities of the small mission hospitals by not reimbursing them after they treat their patients using the NHIF cover. I am aware of Muthale Mission Hospital, which is the only mission hospital in my constituency that has been treating many people using their NHIF cover, but the insurer has not reimbursed them. Therefore, this has caused the mission hospital to suffer so much and the people not to get treatment as they ought to because most of the time, there is no medicine since the NHIF has not reimbursed them. This Bill also proposes punitive measures for late payment to the Fund. That should apply to institutions which give late payments to the Fund, but not individual members. Some of those institutions have the tendency of not remitting funds after deducting them from the members. They should be the ones who should be penalised, but not the individual members. This Bill proposes the inclusion of mandatory payment to the Fund. The inclusion of the word “mandatory” in the Bill makes it clear that the NHIF is mandatory. In theory, the NHIF has The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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