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    "id": 1581059,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1581059/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "To the people out there, if you can afford Ksh1,000 or you have been assessed as being able to pay Ksh1,000 or Ksh2,000 premium, you have to pay the rate that is given to you based on the assessment. If your assessment has been done wrong, go and have it queried. The fact is that if we want this country to be able to offer UHC, we need to pay the premiums. Therefore, let us not wait until we are sick. I think that message has to be taken to the communities, various health institutions as well as the grassroots because people join SHA when they are sick and get admitted. SHA will collapse if we continue that way. The idea is for us to make sure that we pay SHA for our house helps even if we know that they are not formally employed. Everybody has a moral responsibility to make sure that people who are known to them have signed up to SHA. A friend recently told me that they have a gardener and a watchman who want to sign up for the Social Health Authority (SHA), and they wanted to know how to go about it. This indicates that the Ministry of Health is not doing enough. The easy way is to make people pay a one-year premium lumpsum, but instead of doing that, the Ministry should advertise SHA and its benefits. They should not keep telling us it is working. They should go online and ensure that everybody understands that they need to sign up and pay for SHA. Asking people to pay an annual lumpsum premium upfront because they are not marketing SHA well is wrong."
}