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    "id": 1294523,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294523/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
        "slug": "margaret-kamar"
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    "content": "Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in strongly supporting the Social Health Insurance Bill. Because of time, I will go straight to Part V: The Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Fund. When this Bill is passed and assented to, this is going to be the biggest benefit as far as I can see. Some people have suffered from chronic diseases like kidney diseases. People who have had transplants and have to have lifelong treatments have suffered. We know families that sometimes skip medication. It has been a disaster. So, this is the best benefit to me, and I want to laud the framers of this Bill because of this very important proposal. The other thing is the Emergency Fund. It is very sad to live in a country where, in an emergency, a hospital rejects you. You are already bleeding because you have been found on a road having been knocked by a motorbike, and you cannot go in because of lack of money. We know this because a lot of people have been turned away by hospitals. So, the creation of a fund that is national, the creation of a fund that we can call our fund, is very important in this Bill. I support everything in this Bill, and to note finally that, we have a solution for the chronic illnesses that our people have suffered. People have died prematurely because of"
}