Increased Fees For State Health Insurance Fund Opposed

BMI View: Opposition to the Kenyan government's implementation of new, income-dependent rates into citizens' National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) payments must be addressed. While we welcome the government's focus on expanding coverage and ensuring its citizens have adequate access to healthcare services, the Kenyan economy is growing and social classes are expanding. The government will therefore come under mounting pressure to implement increasingly complex tax systems (not just with contributions to the NHIF) that are fair to all its citizens. New

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