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    "id": 1294459,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "no single day, unless you are an animal from another planet, you cannot be a leader in this country and wake up by 6.00 a.m. and by 8.00 o’clock, that you do not have a message from your phone from a Kenyan trying to reach out to you and saying ‘I went to this hospital, this is what they want, I cannot afford or we lost a relative and did this or the other.’ Therefore, over and above the good intentions of this Bill, it is in our best interest as leaders and those that are elite in society, that we make this enabling legislation that provides a national social health insurance that will ensure quality healthcare is affordable to those at the lowest of the pyramid. This is about a shared responsibility and burden so that people like you and I who earn better can pay more. Feel the pain slightly but ensure that while I pay more for it, millions of the people I represent in this House are brought onto the national health system and are able to take care of themselves. Remember that part of the laws that we passed in Turkana County Assembly are community health volunteers; people that will be going around people’s homes training, looking after them and teaching them healthy habits about how to live their lives and ensure they have long fruitful healthy lives. We have already passed an enabling legislation for that as a House. Many of our local hospitals will be generating sufficient resources because many people will be sent--- We must find ways because this is part of the spirit of ensuring that devolution succeeds in the comments that we have just made. We will tie and ensure that those resources are tied to that same dispensary or health centre. We did that under the Primary Healthcare Bill. This afternoon, we have just come from debating the Digital Health Bill ensuring that your data is properly captured. We are able to analyse you and know which part of the country or region suffers from what particular disease and deploy the proper resources in terms of health facilities. This is the last of the four Bills. This is because at the end of the day, somebody must pay since we are not equally blessed as a country but we believe in equity. We went to the campaign and pledged to ensure that we build a nation and a society where even those that are not endowed with much resource feel proud to be part of this society. That is part of the organs and tenets that are being pushed by this Bill; having a social health insurance that ensures that the villagers that wake up so early to vote for us and find us representing them in this House have some form of comfort and cover. This is the enabling legislation that is coming onto it. Therefore, we are providing a safety net against the financial burden of medical expenses. It is a fact that is proven. Many families are just one illness away from poverty. Sometimes, all it takes to knock people from living a normal decent life where they are able to fend for themselves is a member of their family falling ill because of how our healthcare system is organised. That is why every President and presidential candidate that has participated in the last four or five presidential elections from 2002, 2007, 2013, 2017 and 2022 has been pledging UHC. This is because people appreciate and they know that it is important for us, as a nation, to build a different healthcare system separate from what we have. What"
}