Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1010741608

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-21094

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Fillebrown, Charles Bowdoin

Title:: The ABC of taxation

Edition:: Fourth edition specially revised

Place of publication:: Garden City, New York

Publisher:: Doubleday, Page & Company

Year of publication:: 1916

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (236 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. Other essays and addresses

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3, DE MINORITY REPORT. that the cash benefits should be raised to those of the Unemploy- ment Act, which implies similar rates of allowances for dependants. 124. The margin in the present contribution was determined by the Departmental Actuarial Committee to be 1-55d. men, and ‘82d. women. As we observe that the Majority estimate that it will be possible to provide the cost of the proposed extension of medical benefit, taken over the whole country, from the present financial resources of the system, we consider it proper to deduct the contribution value of that cost, namely -44d. per week, from the actuarial calculation of the cost of existing benefits. There is therefore a margin available for our recom- mendations of 199d. men and 1:26d. women. 125. The Committee estimated that (1) to increase the rate of sickness benefit to that of unemployment benefit with one-half the rate for disablement benefit would add to the contribution of men 9d. and women ‘75d. (2) the cost of providing dependants’ allowances at uniform rates with, and on substantially the same conditions as, the Unemployment Act would represent an increase in contributions of 1:6d. for men and :16d. for women, and (3) the provision of maternity services for the wives of insured men and for insured women, would involve an increase of ;44d. in the case of men but would allow a reduction of 11d. in the case of women. 126. The net cost of providing the benefits mentioned in the preceding paragraph, excluding the statutory State grant of two-ninths, is 2:94d. per week in the case of men and 80d. per week in the case of women. This would leave nearly a penny (-95d.) a week to be found from other sources to supplement the contributions of men, but in the case of women, there is a margin of ‘46d. towards the cost of our further proposals respect- ing sickness benefit after 26 weeks and maintenance allowance at confinement. 197. Our observations on the administration of sickness benefit to women during pregnancy might here be supplemented to suggest that part of the cost of the proposed maternity allow- ance would be a growing expenditure under any scheme. In so far as the extra moneys needed for our recommendations could not be provided on the present financial basis we submit that the general opinion, expressed so well in the Majority Report, that such services as we here recommend, will result in a higher standard of health and consequent reduction of expenditure on benefits would justify a further examination of the finances of the scheme, and that still further changes would be possible on the adoption of our recommendation to substitute the Local Authority for the Approved Society as the medium for administering all the benefits under the Act

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