Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1740277147

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-132094

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: XII, 394 S.

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Minority report

Collection:: Economics Books

MINORITY REPORT. 39" AE SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. We append a summary of our main conclusions and recommendations :— (1) That it is neither necessary nor proper to confine the developments of the National Health Insurance Scheme to such as can be paid for within the present financial resources of the Scheme (para. 3). (2) That the local administration of additional benefits could be more satisfactorily carried out by the local authorities responsible for other health services than by Approved Societies (para. T). (3) That the failure hitherto to give effect to the provisions of Section 107 of the Act as to inquiries into excessive sickness has been largely due to the fact that the Approved Society system is not adapted to the purpose (para. 22). (4) That the test of good administration is not merely a low expenditure on benefits but the securing also that all insured persons receive the benefits to which they are entitled (para. 37). (5) That the intentions of Parliament as to the control of Approved Societies by their members have not been realised (para. 40). (6) That the Approved Society system is a hindrance to the development of a complete public health policy (para. 55). (7) That it is undesirable to retain Approved Societies any longer as the agencies for the distribution of cash benefits to insured persons (para. 3). (8) That Local Authorities could and should take the place of Approved Societies as the bodies through whom sickness and disablement benefits should be administered (para. 7). (9) That there is financial loss due to the overlapping of the various health services at present in operation, and that the money available will be increased when these services are unified and controlled under the Local Authority (para. 59). (10) That in considering the cost of proposed developments of Lealth services there should be taken into account the loss to the nation resulting from neglect to provide sufficiently for the health of all persons who are or will be employable (para. 60). (11) That an outlay which safeguards industrial well-being and conduces to efficiency should not be regarded as a burden on industry or on the community (para. 61). (12) That as the provision of a complete medical and treat- ment service would tend to prevent sickness and to effect a speedier and more complete. eure of illness, it would result in economy of expenditure on cash benefits, and that the provision

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