Nearly two decades ago, President Mwai Kibaki rejected a Bill by then Health minister Charity Ngiu that proposed a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) that would have seen taxpayers foot an Sh11 billion medical bill yearly.
This would spell the end of the socialist push by Ms Ngilu to deliver the National Social Health Insurance Fund Bill which proposed to use the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to meet the insurance costs for the poor.
