In what is billed as the most radical surgery in Kenya's health services since independence, the 57-year-old National Health Insurance Fund will be abolished. Salaried individuals will then be forced to pay 2.75 per cent of their gross salary to fund a new agency known as the Social Health Authority. The authority will comprise of Primary Health Care Fund, the Social Health Insurance Fund and the Emergency and Critical Illness Fund. The National Health Insurance Fund has over the years been laden with political appointees whose main assignment has been to source for tenders and deals for their masters. The Ruto regime must therefore go flat out to ensure that Kenyans receive value for money in the new health reforms.

Source: Daily Nation October 22, 2023 10:18 UTC