{"id":838898,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/838898/?format=json","text_counter":252,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Masinga, WDM-K","speaker_title":"Hon. Joseph Mwalyo","speaker":{"id":13423,"legal_name":"Joshua Mbithi Mwalyo","slug":"joshua-mbithi-mwalyo-2"},"content":"The other thing is that we need to either amend or come up with a law that will make every Kenyan to have NHIF card. If it is possible, the Government can even subsidise and the cost lowered from Kshs500 a month to, maybe, Kshs100 or Kshs200. It could help. How many people in the rural areas can afford Kshs500? Even if you pay for a few, what about the rest? Therefore, I would like us to link it to NHIF so that we can regulate it so that everybody can afford healthcare and patients can be treated in those Levels 3 and 4 hospitals with the cards only, because they have no money to even pay for drugs. With those few remarks, I support."}