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    "id": 1157388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I salute my distinguished friend and colleague from Taita/Taveta for bringing this Statement to the Floor of this House. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, although the Statement narrows to Mama Mary Ngina, who has not been paid the insurance, it opens a much wider scope that whichever Committee that needs to look at this issue actually needs to be broad-minded and look at issues that have been raised by those who have spoken before me. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, insurance in many countries is the hope and salvation of the citizens, particularly, in developed democracies and societies like Europe. In fact, funds accumulated in insurance savings are what turns the economies of those countries. Here, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, insurance is synonymous with fraud, cheating, dishonesty and all manner of things. There was a small insurance company called Access that used to insure matatus . It went down with billions of unsettled claims. It had specialized in insuring matatus and every matatu that rolled and killed, maimed and caused disabilities, went down without any compensation. Today, as we call upon AMACO to pay Ms. Mary Ngina, I also ask the Committee to pay attention to what is going on at the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) which is a public insurance undertaking for health. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you will be surprised that almost three quarters of the payment from NHIF goes to private hospitals that attends to less than 15 per cent of Kenyans who need healthcare. Kenyans who go to public hospitals hardly get NHIF underwriting their hospital bills. All the monies are paid to hospitals with big names that hardly attend to 15 to 20 percent of Kenyans when they fall sick. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is why we want to assure Kenyans that the"
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