Proposed Benefits

In addition to the current benefits, under the proposed out-patient cover, members will enjoy the following benefits:

=> Prescribed laboratory tests/investigations
=> Drugs/medicines
=> Prescribed X-rays and ultra sound diagnosis
=> Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections
=> Treatment, dressing or diagnostic testing
=> Family planning
=> Ante-natal and post-natal care
=> Clinical counseling services
=> Health and wellness education
=> General consultation with GPs

Hii Kenya yetu tuko na sida

They are so quick to say when the deduction should start,bt silence on when i should start enjoying the service.

who is there to stand up for kenyans, and mpigs will be going round giving us lies,yet noone can address this.

Huyu mchamaaa wa KOTU ama inaitwa aje,amepewa nini? ameenda underground on this,hata kwa news,he is nowhere to be found.

You are right. This maybe a quick route to wealth for some guys.

The amounts are just too huge. I am annoyed at the lack of any major benefit accruing to the contributors to this scheme.

Will we then have free health care for all?

Doba

Wacha wa kenya wa mapato ya chini pia wafaidike.

Very interesting. To me it seems these guys who come up with the formulas try and evade the most convenient methods. Say if they were to like put a structure where a certain contribution for those who are self employed will give you access more services etc...then there would be less public outcry.
Then for those in formal employment these amounts they are proposing should have been gradual say over a period of 5 years to cushion both the employer and the employee. Is it really that hard?

The challenge they have taken on is the free benefit to the unemployed.

How do they prove that a claimant is unemployed ?
How do they prove that a self employed person is not claiming to be unemployed ?
How will they handle the huge number of foreseen 'unemployed claimants' ?

With the 1 month they have given as the effective date, I sure hope they are working very hard in the background to get their act together.

Thiking outside the mbox.
Imagine Njenga Karume paying 500 while his mboch paying 2000!

I am also quite unhappy with NHIF about this one. Like cotu says, why can’t the government cater for the health needs of the unemployed from the taxes it collects? But perhaps it is not all lost because COTU is planning to block the execution of the new rates pending the hearing and determination of an appeal it is planning to lodge (see link below).
http://www.nation.co.ke/.../-/3bbki5z/-/index.html

Yes we CAN ask the government what they do with our taxes. That is why treasury presents a budget.

During the financial period ending June 2010, NHIF had claims of 3.1 billion from 2.8 million members.

http://www.businessdaily.../-/iim5dfz/-/index.html

At 320/- per member, annual revenues for the same period was 10.75B. Did the balance of 7.65B all go towards salaries and expenses?