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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the Chairman that this is his baby and he must take it up with the Government and make serious recommendations about training for specialized people and also bringing up these hospitals in terms of capacity and equipment to a certain level before we talk of insurance. I would also like to talk about insurance. There are certain diseases which we cannot afford to treat however wealthy one is. Even for us Senators, the day you will not be insured here, the day you will not be a Senator, you will realise that you have no insurance. When I came back as a Senator having stopped being a Member of Parliament, I went to the clinic where we usually go and I was told that there is no communication that I am covered. It is a serious matter. Well, I only heard a respiratory problem but suppose I had an accident and it was serious enough to require serious medical attention? I do not know what I would have sold to pay for that. We talk about national social insurance to take care of certain serious problems that people cannot bear on their own like cancer, serious accidents, diabetes which is a life problem, high blood pressure which might not be serious except for some tablets. But sometimes, you might not have money for tablets. I have lost a very good friend of mine because he did not have a tablet for high blood pressure and he had a stroke. That can happen to any one of us when you are broke. So, let us think about national insurance on some of these very serious diseases. I think we are now taking care of children up to five years which is good for the country because that was a very delicate area. I can also see that we are taking care of mothers during delivery and that is also very good, but I think we must do it structurally through some insurance which can cover everybody. We attempted it and it failed but we can attempt it again and revise it in a way that can help this country. With those few remarks, I support."
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