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<\/div>Deputy President William Ruto campaigning in Machakos County.<\/strong> [Courtesy]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Deputy President William Ruto has promised to give all Kenyans subsidised National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cover, if elected president in the August 9 General Election.\n<\/p>\n His sentiments came just hours after NHIF board chairperson Lewis Nguyai announced a change of name to the National Health Insurance Fund. <\/p>\n While addressing residents of Joska, Machakos County on Thursday evening, Ruto said that he will make sure government pays premiums for Kenyans who cannot afford the monthly contribution.\n<\/p>\n \u201cGod willing, by the end of this year, all Kenyans will have an NHIF cover. For those who cannot afford the monthly contributions, I will make sure the government pays for all of you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The presidential hopeful also took a swipe at the region’s perceived political kingpin Kalonzo Musyoka, saying he had gone through so many frustrations as a result of his support for ODM leader Raila Odinga.\n<\/p>\n In his efforts to sell his Bottom-Up economic model to Machakos residents, Ruto compared his presidency to America’s Joe Biden, who adopted the economic model for his election.\n<\/p>\n “Look at President Joe Biden of America. He is using the trickle-down economy and so far, the American economy is doing way better,” he said. <\/p>\n This is in line with one of President Uhuru\u2019s Big Four Agenda, Universal Health Coverage, which states a mandatory contribution of Sh 6,000 annually for all Kenyans.\n<\/p>\n Prior to the DP\u2019s remarks, NHIF announced a number of amendments that would see it get into a healthcare provider contract between the national health insurance fund and the healthcare providers.\n<\/p>\n \u201cThis is to broaden the scope of service delivery because there are many healthcare providers,\u201d Nguyai said.\n<\/p>\n The new name also includes organisations that have renal dialysis centres, cancer care centres and diabetic care centres.\n<\/p>\n The fund is currently undergoing a series of regulatory and legal reforms to ensure it is sustainable through a mechanism that has a robust beneficiary identification and registration. <\/p>\n Once again, a row between Kenya and Uganda is hurting people and businesses on both sides of the border.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Deputy President William Ruto campaigning in Machakos County. [Courtesy] Deputy President William Ruto has promised to give all Kenyans subsidised National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cover, if elected president in the August 9 General Election. His sentiments came just hours after NHIF board chairperson Lewis Nguyai announced a change of name to the National Health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nKenya, Uganda shame <\/b>
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