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 XIII. Miscellaneous questions

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2206 MAJORITY REPORT. provide reasonably for the second. We are also satisfied that there is ample justification for the proposition that the insurance rights of men who have served with the Forces of the Crown should be improved in the manner suggested and we, there- fore, recommend that statutory provision should be made accordingly. In the case of men who transfer to Approved Societies on discharge from the Forces, we consider that the new provision should take the form of requiring them to be treated for the purpose of title to additional benefits as though they had been members of the Society from the date of their joining the Forces and that to enable this to be done the transfer values payable out of the Navy, Army and Air Force Insurance Fund should be augmented by the estimated share of surplus earned during their period of service. MERCANTILE MARINE—HFORBIGN-G-OING SEAMEN. 543. The original intention of the National Insurance Bill of 1911 was to segregate in one Society all foreign-going seamen of the Mercantile Marine. Owing, however, to some conflict of opinion between the leaders of the various interests concerned the efforts made in this direction were unsuccessful, and we are informed that the 100,000 foreign-going seamen insured under the Act are distributed over about 1,600 different Societies and Branches (Kinnear, Q. 23,769). The Seamen’s National Insurance Society has about 40,000 foreign-going seamen members and the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union about 20,000, while of the remaining 40,000, 24,000 are in seven different Societies. We understand that the difficulties in the way of forming a single Society for these men have hitherto proved insurmountable, and that the main obstacle has been the rivalry of the two large Societies which have between them 60 per cent. of the total membership of foreign-going seamen. 544. The foreign-going seamen are undoubtedly a difficult class to deal with, owing to the nature of their calling, and many of them are indifferent as to the surrender of cards. We were informed by Sir Norman Hill (App. XXXI, 14) that the leakage of contributions in the case of the Seamen’s National Insurance Society was between 25 and 33 per cent., and we are given to understand that a Departmental Committee which recently considered the problem, while not accepting this figure, were satisfied that the loss was substantial and far in excess of that amongst landsmen. 545. Having regard to this considerable loss we have given careful consideration to the suggestion made by the Seamen's National Insurance Society (App. XXXI, 40-42; Q. 12,060-12.071, 12,086-12,089 and 12,146-12,165) and the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union (App. XLII, 16: Q. 13,977-13.985 and 14.037-

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