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    "id": 300797,
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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": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for allowing me time to speak. Hon. Members, I am not going to read all these; do not be worried. I just put it here for the sake of having my ammunition next to me. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say the following. One, my friend, hon. Dalmas Otieno, is right. This scheme of the Civil Service was not part of the main agenda of NHIF. The NHIF had started as early as 2003 when I was the Minister for Planning and National Development, to work with us in the Ministry to develop a universal healthcare scheme. In the year 2005, a Bill was brought to this House to start a universal healthcare coverage by my dear friend, hon. Charity Ngilu. Hon. Charity Ngilu and I worked very closely. We went to see the President and explained the Bill to him. We also explained the amendments that were proposed and when Parliament passed that Bill and sent it to the President, the President did not sign it into law. Why did the President not sign it into law? This is because it was argued at that point in time that the Exchequer could not afford to finance such a scheme. Hon. Ngilu, therefore, said that if the Treasury cannot afford to finance the scheme, let us see how the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) can arrive at universal health coverage for all Kenyans. Two, arguments had been used against the NHIF. One, that is was not properly constituted as an insurance firm and two, that in terms of management, it needed to improve itself. The first thing that Charity Ngilu did in 2007 was to commission Alexander Forbes and Actuarial Company to overlook the actuarial capacity of the NHIF. Alexander Forbes came up with voluminous report which I want to show the House."
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