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    "id": 1557924,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1557924/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": "It is hypothetical. I am just using Ksh5,000 as an example. That lady would pay Ksh300 or Ksh500 to SHA. If she wants to deliver in Pumwani Maternity Hospital, SHA will pay Ksh30,000. She will deliver and walk home with her baby. She will not pay a coin. Hon. Speaker, if your wife delivers at the Aga Khan University Hospital, SHA will pay Ksh30,000 because the first charge is on SHA. Your insurance at Parliament will pay Ksh170,000. But you have a choice for your wife to deliver at Pumwani. So, the rich and the poor must access universal health care. The choice is yours. By paying Ksh47,800, the Speaker is indirectly paying for many people who go through means testing. Those who earned Ksh1 million used to pay Ksh1,700 under NHIF. That was 0.01 per cent. When mama mboga paid Ksh500 for NHIF, she was contributing ten times what the Speaker was paying. For equity purposes, the law you amended states that for everybody to access equitable, affordable and accessible quality health care, the formula should be 2.5 per cent of the income they earn. Hon. Oundo, my good friend from the former Public Accounts Committee (PAC), regarding the indigents, the National Government is doing the means testing using the Social Health Protection Database. Regarding Hon. KJ’s…"
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