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    "content": "dealing with the prices of milk. We got it very clear that there is no way the Government can control the prices of milk, which was liberalized in 1992. Besides that, there are all manner of national Government agencies and a number of Government efforts in trying to come up with things that can make the production cost go down. One of them is the dairy board which is coming up with all manner of issues and strategies. The dairy board is not a board of any county government. So, we were wondering how they are going to be relating with county governments. When they are talking about putting coolers and stuff like those together the way it is being done in Murang’a County, we asked: “Did you work together with Murang’a?” They said: “No, Murang’a was on its own”. I am trying to bring about the fact that there are many other sectors that are faced with this kind of situation. This will not work if each sector is going to come up with a Bill addressing these operational problems rather than using the Constitution for purposes of addressing the issues. The Constitution has a lot of things. The other thing is this: We are going to be blamed as Parliament because if you look at Article 190 of the Constitution, the legislations that are supposed to facilitate what I am talking about are supposed to be a function of the Legislature. In case of failures, Parliament is supposed to come up with a legislation to exactly show that: “If this and that happens, this is exactly what needs to happen to a county government or to that function”. It is us who have not done that. So, I want to believe that, in as much as the spirit of the Bill is very clear, it is going to contradict the Constitution quite a lot. There are certain good things that are there in the Bill, even in terms of the definition of “health facilities”. It is very clear that it comprises both private and public health facilities. The public, sometimes, think that when you talk about a health facility, you are only referring to a public health facility. But it now includes the private ones. There are quite a lot of other things that are creative. The only problem they are going to face, particularly when they are handling the issues of the emergencies, is that emergencies are going to be repaid or reimbursed by somebody. Kenyans are very difficult when it comes to free things. A lot of medical conditions might end up being medical emergencies where everybody wants to run for reimbursement. This is going to be very difficult to operationalise. It would have been very useful to have unused insurance premiums to address this kind of a situation."
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