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    "id": 1523949,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1523949/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tabitha Mutinda",
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    "content": ". We should have a discussion that at the end of the day brings a solution to the common mwananchi. The problem is how this communication was done, because out of 18 million Kenyans who have registered for SHA, only 4 million are remitting. The other 14 million are not remitting. Today, as we were looking at the Budget Policy Statement (BPS), the Council of Governors (CoG) appeared with their submissions. Out of the Kshs85 billion that has been increased to go to the Ministry of Health, almost Kshs30 billion is going to the Ministry for other functions. We are also asking what this additional funding is supposed to do. Any additional funding that has gone to the Ministry of Health should strategically be tabled to show how much is going to handle the issues of SHA. The discussion that we are having is trying to make SHA look so bad, yet it is one of the best programmes that the Government is offering. We are forgetting that you do not know when you will get sick. Sickness does not knock. Therefore, in whichever conversations that we are having, let us have a conversation minding the common mwananchi and addressing the key issues. On the issue of the Auditor-General, there are concerns. Let them come to Parliament, let us look at them and address them. Nonetheless, the issues of the Auditor- General are different issues. The issues of the mwananchi going to the hospital and not being able to get a service is an issue and that should be addressed collectively. Sickness does not know tribe or has no time. Sometimes it does not matter how ---."
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