The government through the Ministry of health is in the process of restructuring the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) so that everybody gets a value for their money.
This is according to Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopus Mailu who believes that a lot has to be done to the national health insurance cover in order to regain Kenyans confidence in it.
Speaking in Naivasha on Thursday during the official launch of a local employers summit ahead of the African summit to be held in the country.
The CS noted that the fund should be tailored in such a way that everybody should be covered irrespective of their monthly wages.
He asked the Federation of Kenyan Employers (FKE) to help push for reforms in the fund arguing that many employees were suffering in silence.
"Reforms in how the fund is being managed are long overdue because many of us including myself remit our monthly contributions to it but are not fully catered for when the need arises," said Mailu.
"its time Kenyans got value for their hard-earned money," he added.
Mailu further called for a reduction in the monthly contribution amounts arguing that being a government-run fund, it should accommodate everybody without overstretching their budgets.
"Let the private medical covers compete with NHIF, and not the other way round," said Mailu.
"it is ironical that some private covers are cheaper than ours. This is among the reforms I am talking about," he added.