Minister of Labour and Social Security Brenda Tambatamba has told explained to the House that government decided to remove the buy back option under NHIMA because the scheme would have gone bankrupt if some user behaviours were not curtailed. And PF MPIKA MP Francis Kapyanga has wondered why government has not segmented NHIMA products in order to provide different health care packages which members can access. Delivering a ministerial statement, Tuesday, Tambatamba said some people only used to sign up for NHIMA once they fall ill, pay the minimum activation fee of K200, and then proceed to access very costly health care services. She said these patients would then discontinue paying for NHIMA once they recovered and this type of...

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