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    "id": 1479063,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Chache South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Antoney Kibagendi",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I sit in the Departmental Committee on Health and I have raised concerns about a bulk of what fellow Members have raised here this afternoon. One of my concerns was about the cost of this particular system given that some of the most sophisticated systems that we have in this country such as Kenya Revenue Authority, Safaricom, M-Pesa and a few others cost less than Ksh10 billion. I am wondering why we should genuinely spend Ksh104 billion on a system that those who created the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) system were willing to upgrade for less than Ksh1 billion. Ksh104 billion is adequate to take care of primary school children for 10 years. For only Ksh9 billion per year, they would have lunch in school. Secondly, why should this system offer an inferior benefit yet members pay more now? Imagine they are saying only one individual in a family can benefit from diabetes test each year, and it is only Ksh4,000. Again, only one person can benefit on matters to do with dental, and it is about Ksh2,000. In addition, only one member in a family can benefit from optical medical care. This is absurd given what we had in NHIF. If indeed NHIF had issues, our focus should have been to review the Claims Management Department. I would like to bring to your attention that even in the Social Health Authority, there is a scheme to outsource the core mandate of this particular authority, which is the Claims Management Department and that will mean loss of funds that would have been used to support poor Kenyans. This is something that has been disturbing me all this time and I am impressed that Members have actually taken it up."
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