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    "id": 1294480,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13217,
        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "cancer. Whenever you go for funerals and harambees of cancer victims and other illnesses, the clarion call by wananchi, the ordinary Wanjiku is to ask what the insurance fund is doing to insure Kenyans. Treating cancer and other chronic diseases is very expensive. You lose life and property and the family goes back to poverty. I support the issue of chronic and critical illnesses fund and it will assist in curing such. I hope we can invest in research in this Fund because some regions have high cancer cases. I also agree that some employers have been doing statutory deductions but not remitting to NHIF. I am happy that they will not run away. Madam Temporary Speaker, yours truly deputizes one of the powerful Committees in this House called the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and most of the culprits are counties. They do statutory deductions including contributions to NHIF and they do not remit. I am happy that the cure is in this law and it is exciting. For every employer, the writing is on the wall, mene mene tekel, that anyone who takes money through statutory deductions must remit. I am happy that penalties have been enhanced. Madam Temporary Speaker, you and I are lawyers and we should propose even the lifting of the veil of the owners of those hospitals. The fifth point is on fraudulent claims. There was a hospital that was being owed by NHIF almost Kshs2 billion yet we know it is not that much high. I am happy that a claim fund has been put in place. For any right-thinking Kenyan, this is the Bill of hustlers. Hustlers will receive redemption after today. This is what the President has been espousing on bottom-up economic model. Every hustler today should celebrate because freedom is here with us, where they can walk to a medical health centre somewhere in Mosoriot, Kipteren, Marsabit, Chomoi, Lwanda and other areas and receive medical care. Finally, on the issue of employees of NHIF, they should be free to subject themselves to the process. No one is being fired. I thank you and I support."
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