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    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for giving me the opportunity. At the very outset, I support this Bill. I hope that we had supported this Bill like yesterday - not even today - so that it can replace the NHIF which, as you know, has been very difficult. I think most Members have mentioned the same thing and I quite agree with them that NHIF has not been doing very well. However, somebody said that we are going to leave out the NHIF employees. That is not true. Once this is passed, I am sure the persons who are working in NHIF and have experience and are not corrupt will be absorbed by this particular agency that we have said is coming to replace NHIF. I think it is the right thing to do. I have just come from Kitale and I can tell you the last three days, it was nothing else but people coming and asking for assistance. When you tell them: ‘You have a card, go to the hospital’, they tell you that the card is not even accepted. We must do something about this. I support this Bill because it will actually make our Kenyan people able to access the affordable insurance. Of course, the most important thing is that it is a transformation because we are now going to move forward. We cannot live in the past. We are now moving into a new Fund which will ensure that we do not rely more on the private insurance companies. The other thing is that it is affordable. From what I am seeing in the Bill and from the report by the Committee, it is affordable. As a Member of Parliament, you fundraise every other time for this and that. I am sure with the passage of this insurance company, there will be nothing like that. For example, we fundraise a lot of times when we are at home. I know some Members of Parliament do not even go home because of that kind of obligation that people have to do at home. There is a fundraising here and there and somebody is… The other thing that I also want to agree with in this Bill is in Part IV. There is this Emergency, Chronic and Critical Health Fund. This will take care of people who, as mentioned here, need healthcare. Those are the people who have chronic diseases like cancer. This Emergency, Chronic and Critical Illness Agency will take care of people who are not able to access the other Fund that had problems. Therefore, as we pass this Bill, let Members take time to encourage Kenyans to register as members. I am told that instead of them paying Ksh500, they will pay Ksh300 for the same. Hon. Members, once we pass this Bill, and I see the Chairman is here, let us encourage people The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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