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    "id": 123175,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
        "slug": "peter-nyongo"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy, Sir, I want to support this National Policy on Older Persons and Aging. I am speaking after my former Assistant Minister, Mr. Mungatana, who has made a wonderful contribution which I listened to while coming in here. I have come specifically to speak on chapter three of the National Policy on Older Persons and Aging, related to health and active life. This is really the first time that the Government is coming out very explicitly to support old persons in a policy document that I hope will be reduced into law to guarantee old persons proper healthcare and services. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at all insurance companies in this country, except for the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), you will realize that most of them will not cover an individual if he or she is not working in paid employment once he or she is over 70 years old. If you went and sought to take up an insurance policy, you will find that it is so expensive that it becomes counter-productive to be insured, if at all an insurance company is willing to give it. This means that when old people are admitted to hospitals, the bills that they pay are prohibitive."
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