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    "id": 1343430,
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    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I think my amendment is similar to Hon. Oluoch’s amendment. I plead with Hon. Members to listen to me, because this is important. We are saying that we want to outsource the claims payment issues. What will happen, assuming we did that? Let us look at the operations! What will happen is somebody out there will do all the paperwork and then present the papers to the claims management office to pay. If you are the one seated in the claims management office as an officer paying, would you not take time to review the paperwork and the paper tray again so that before you pay, you are convinced this is worth paying? So, even before you think about the payment, what you would have done is go through double procedures in terms of payment. The outsourced agent will bring the papers, which will take as long as it has taken him to process them. So, first, that causes a delay in processing the payments. To me, I think we do not need this outsourced service. I like what the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party keeps saying. He has always said we want to amend this law to do away with the cartels already in the NHIF. I can tell you for sure, without any fear of contradiction, that this is going to be the biggest cartel in town. This arrangement is going to be the biggest cartel in town. We are not being told that for this outsourced service, people will be earning some commission for processing that. Obviously, they cannot process without any payment. So, we are not even thinking about that. Imagine if this fund was a fund of Kshs40 billion and you give 0.01% for processing; how much money are we talking about? What will happen is that people will start fighting for this opportunity, and that is why you create room for rent-seeking. Hon. Members, I plead with you to allow the NHIF internal team to process their payments and make the payment. That will help this country."
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