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.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The approved society system

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MAJORITY REPORT JO SE —— conclusion that no case for the abolition of the Societies can be established on the broad ground of defects and shortcomings in administration. In saying this we are not to be understood as indicating that there are no faults to be remedied. We could wish, for instance, that in some quarters the interests of the insured persons were more fully considered in regard to such matters as expenditure on administration within the prescribed limit or that the rights of the members had been more fully respected when the constitutions of certain of the Societies were framed ; and we have had occasional evidence, which must be treated with respect, pointing to shortcomings in the payment of benefits and other dealings between the Societies and their mem- bers. But we realise that defects of these kinds spring less from improper motives than from those human weaknesses that in some form or another must reveal themselves in whatever type of organisation may be erected to administer a great scheme such as the one we have under review ; and we cannot accept them as amounting, in the whole, to the establishment of such a case against the Societies as to warrant us in recommending that they should be superseded. It has also seemed to us in the course of our investi- gation that certain of the Societies may be so large as to make it impossible for the highest degree of admini- strative efficiency to be attained, regard being had to the limits of human capacity to deal with an intricate piece of administration of which the subjects are not mechanical but human beings with all their idiosyncrasies and weaknesses. In regard to such of these matters as seem to us capable of improvement we make appropriate recommendations. Taking everything into consideration, however, we conclude that the Approved Societies should be retained as an essential part of the system and on this fundamental question we submit a recor. mendation to that effect. 223. It must be clearly understood that our recommendation is made in relation to the Scheme of National Health Insurance as if exists at present, and that our view in favour of the retention of Approved Societies does not necessarily imply that develop- ments in the system of social insurance outside the range of present contemplation might not necessitate a reconsideration of the position. 224. In disposing of this subject we think it well to refer to the existence of the considerable number of * Associations,’ ** Conferences ”’ and ‘“Joint Committees ”’ into which ths Societies, which means primarily their official elements, have been banded in connexion with their work under the Acts. For the interchange of views as to the best methods of administration with due regard to the interests of the Societies and of the insured persons individually, these groupings should afford admirable opportunity and should be of corresponding value; but we are

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