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    "id": 838843,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838843/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 197,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Eseli Simiyu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "The other area that has not been addressed in the Health Laws (Amendment) Bill is healthcare financing, which is such a critical area that needs to be addressed as urgently as possible. The last Budget came up with the Robin Hood Tax which did not stipulate what the money is for except saying that it will go to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to help with the universal healthcare. That is not the way we want to run this thing. We re-classified our country to a lower middle-income economy. Once we did that, we lost a lot of donor support. Once we lose it in the area of vaccinations and treatment of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), we will not have it very soon. We need to look critically at healthcare financing to cover things like the HIV management treatment, tuberculosis (TB) management, malaria control and vaccinations for children. Unless we re-look at our healthcare financing, I believe we will still not have done justice to the healthcare system in this country because it is sick."
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