tom_boy wrote:Dahatre wrote:The privatization carnage continues. Many have now learned they can start a clinic/hospital---some (many?) with the intent of scamming clients and or/collecting NHIF and other insurance funds. Insurance companies are already complaining that claims are too high due to billing fraud.
Without consumer protection laws, we will have no recourse and we will pay more for an an even lower quality of care than we have now. Trying to correct this after the fact will be like herding cats.
Tutalilia chooni..
Mlifikiria madaktari were on strike for nothing. Sasa ndio tutajuta sisi wote. Nilisema NHIF scheme is a scam. No excuse to put public money into private pockets when there are public hospitals that can do the same job. As we speak hospitals are over quoting for procedures and middlemen are pocketing their cut.
I want to vouch for nhif and say that maybe what we need is to streamline the procedures and seal loopholes.
My grandma has Cancer of the Oesophagus that was diagnosed in early 2016.We had a stent fitted and the total cost were about 150k.This year the problem resurfaced and we had to have a second stent and guess what all the costs were borne by nhif.At a mission hospital.
I enrolled my house help last year and when she fell ill this year she was treated using the card in a private health facility.I think that the private facilities supplement the public facilities.
Lets work on streamlining the system and ensure as many as possible enroll. The over quoting could be due to the delay it takes to process the payments causing facilities to borrow to sustain their operations.
Love is beautiful and so are those who share it.With Love, Marriage is an amazing event in ones life time, the foundation of joy, happiness and success.