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    "id": 1294457,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294457/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Social Health Insurance Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 58 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. This Bill was published on 11th September, 2023 and passed by the National Assembly on 27th September, 2023. Thereafter, the Bill was referred to the Senate for consideration. The principal objective of this particular Bill is to put in place a legislative framework to regulate the provision of social health insurance, promote the implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and ensure that all Kenyans have access to affordable and comprehensive quality healthcare service. I listened to somebody from the Minority side speak, Sen. Sifuna was not there then. They reminded us that even in the manifesto of our colleagues in Azimio, they had something that was referred to as babacare which was akin to the organs that we have been trying to pursue the last few weeks. Madam Temporary Speaker, when I rose to move the first of the four Bills at the Turkana County Assembly, I did mention that overally, of these four Bills, each serves a distinct purpose. The underlying principal is that we want to move as a country from being reactive in how we manage healthcare to being proactive by providing additional resources to preventive medicine. Ensuring that we set in place systems and early warning mechanism that can help us, as a country, respond and react early to the challenges of diseases and healthcare so that you have healthier citizens that have more fruitful and better lives. It is better than having to pursue it in the means we have done in the last 60 years where we wait until you become sick. By the time you go to hospital, some of the challenges you are facing that will easily have been prevented if you had early warning will find ways of containing it. As it is right now, we, as a country, continue to spend colossal amounts of money treating Kenyans. One of the biggest challenges that Members in this House know is that"
}