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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I agree with the Minister that it is necessary to extend medical cover to bring in more people, there is no shortcut to legislative process. This is subsidiary legislation and the Minister is required to bring and table before the House such rules before they are effected. That would have given us time to debate and also seek further input on what he is proposing. Why did the Minister circumvent the procedure of laying it before the House? What is he going to do about those who do not work; not just those in the informal settlement, but those who have no means of livelihood and cannot have hospital care? Finally, cross-subsidy is quite okay and that is how we support each other as a nation. But it does not make sense for a person earning Kshs100,000 to pay the same amount as those earning beyond Kshs100,000. There are people earning millions. Instead of charging people who are earning Kshs5,000 â and that would be illegal if it is still there, because it is unlivable wages â Kshs150 and then charging somebody earning Kshs800,000, like a Member of Parliament or beyond, the same Kshs2,000 you are charging a person earning Kshs100,000--- What are you going to do to correct the illegality of publishing the rules before they are laid on the Table of the House? Secondly, what are you going to do to address the issues that we need addressed, so that this becomes something useful to all of us?"
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