Rethinking insurance to bring more Kenyans on board, reduce suffering

Nurses attend to expectant women inside one of the maternity wards at Kenyatta National Hospital on November 4, 2016.

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In Kenya today, an unexpected illness can be more than a medical crisis; it can become a financial catastrophe. We have heard of mothers who postponed treatment because they couldn’t afford lump-sum payments.

We have seen families scramble to raise funds while conditions of their loved one's get worse. There have been cases of people who walked out of hospital wards, not because they were healed, but because they couldn't bear the soaring medical bills.

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