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    "id": 288248,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "It is, indeed, a catch 22 situation for the KNH. When the KNH delivers health care service to somebody, they are expected to pay a certain amount because the KNH is highly subsidized. When you fail to pay that amount, it does not go away; you are still responsible for paying it. When you are deceased, the amount still does not go away; somebody must pay it. How do we deal with this catch 22 situation? I have said it in this House and I will say it again that there is no other way of dealing with this catch 22 situation until we establish a comprehensive social health insurance scheme. We could have done it more than two years ago but we were taken to court by Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU). We won the case in the Industrial Court. We again won a case recently in the High Court but we are still being checkmated. I think this House must rise up to its feet and defend the people of Kenya so that we can get this comprehensive social health insurance fund going so that such phenomenon as the KNH or any other hospital detaining either patients or bodies can stop. But before we get a fund that can be used for financing health care beyond budgetary allocations, please, there is no other way of doing it. The bodies will continue to be detained because services must be paid be for. There is nothing for nothing in this day and age. Therefore, this House must fight with us in the Ministries of Health to establish a comprehensive social health insurance which is the only way of dealing with this problem."
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