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    "id": 1286208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1286208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. This Bill seeks to address a problem that has been there in the last 11 years. However, as we were told by Sen. Wamatinga, this problem has been resolved in some counties. This Bill is about the constitutional requirement that all revenue in the county must be collected in the (CRF). This made it difficult for hospitals to retain their monies and expend it at the facilities. The previous Senate failed. The advice given to Nyeri County and others could have been given to everybody. We should have strengthened county assemblies to pass the laws that ring-fence the money. The counties that did it are operating without the problems we are describing here. I urge the Committee on Health to note that our first function as the Senate is to protect devolution. We must be careful not to bring laws like this one, seeking to resolve a problem, but while at it, half way reversing devolution by getting the Ministry of Health in the national Government to prescribe the details of what is happening in a county. We need to be cautious on some of the proposals in the Bill. I have heard a few Senators state that we will achieve UHC through this Bill, which is wrong. We must not lie to the public that by allowing facilities to retain their funds, we will achieve UHC. This Government needs to come up of its prescription of how it will achieve UHC. The allegation that retaining funds in the health facilities will facilitate access to healthcare is misleading. We should be magnanimous enough to recognize this and correct it. Clause 8(d) has put in place the international standards set in defining whether we have UHC or not. It says the finances retained---"
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