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    "id": 1496686,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Today, statistics from SHA show that the mean premium for the 710,000 Kenyans who have done the mean-testing score is Ksh525. As a business person who is doing well, you will do the mean-testing score to know the premiums you should pay from your level of income. People should know that the premium is based on how you answer the questions on the mean- testing score. If you own a car and pay an insurance of Ksh200,000, for heaven's sake, you can also insure your own body and health. Therefore, the people quoting very huge figures is because of the answers they gave in the mean-testing score. This is a fact. You can examine and authenticate these statistics from the SHA website. The mean premium out of the 710,000 people who have registered is Ksh525. On the service providers, 7,802 hospitals have signed up for this programme. A further 8,118 healthcare providers have successfully registered to offer services and out of this, 7,965 are offering services to Kenyans under SHIF. Therefore, for us to stand in this House, funerals, and everywhere else to say that SHIF is not working, is to lie to Kenyans. We should tell the truth and educate them. I know we may have failed in our communication strategy and in educating our people. Let us use this opportunity on the Floor of this House to educate our people. It is unfair that my constituents, some who are unemployed, were paying an average of Ksh500 yet at that time with my huge salary, besides my business income, I was paying Ksh1,700 a month. Now, that I am being asked to pay Ksh27,000 or Ksh20,000 a month, I start to complain and cry more than the bereaved. I am not being honest to Kenyans when I cry more than the bereaved since I am paying 20 times more than what I used to pay from money paid to me by Kenyans. This is the kind of honesty I beg we exercise as we debate and educate Kenyans. Let us be at the forefront of offering civic education to our people. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you have seen cases of cancer and renal care patients who are undergoing dialysis. People were crying that they cannot access dialysis yet they had paid for NHIF. Let us educate Kenyans that if you are unemployed, the moment you sign up, you can automatically access level one, two, and three hospitals without payment. There is capitation to the hospitals through the Facility Improvement Fund. I was very embarrassed over the weekend when I heard a Member of Parliament portend that chibu is not SHIF. Chibu means chief in Kikuyu language. An Hon. Member said that he does not know the difference between SHIF and chibu . This is the case and yet he was seated in this House and legislated from the First Reading to the Committee of the whole House and Third Reading. He was here shouting ‘Aye’, and the Hon. Speaker said ‘the Ayes have it’. Then, in your village you tell Kenyans that you do not know the difference between SHIF and"
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