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:: Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous questions

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te) ~~ MAJORITY REPORT. instituted on the lines referred to above. We think that in view of the magnitude of the work of allocating the contributions to Societies the responsibility of the Central Department’s clearing house in this matter should be limited to those Societies having a reasonably large membership of mercantile marine members and that all other Societies and Branches having members of this class should be required to lodge a claim on the Department for the contributions paid in respect of the members. The cost incurred in crediting Societies with contributions on this basis should be borne pro rata by the various Societies concerned. 548. The proposed schedule system for the collection of contri- butions would apply only to contributions payable in respect of service in the foreign trade, since an essential part of the system is the paying-off of the crew in the presence of a Superintendent of the Mercantile Marine, and the verification by him of the amount properly payable as Health Insurance contributions—a procedure not followed in the case of ships engaged in the home trade. In this connexion we foresee some difficulties to which the adoption of the schedule system may give rise. A very large proportion of foreign-going seamen are not employed solely in the foreign trade throughout each year, but have also periods of service in the home trade, or of employment on shore. For these periods contributions will continue to be payable in the ordinary way by the affixing of stamps to half-yearly cards which will be issued by the Societies and, when stamped, will have to be returned to the Societies by the seamen. For all these men, therefore, the Societies will be compelled to keep separate records of contributions paid under each system. There will also be the danger that men who in respect of their normal employment on foreign-going service are absolved from the responsibility of taking any steps to see that their contributions are properly credited to their Societies, will become more lax in taking the steps which will still be necessary as regards the contributions payable in respect of service in the home trade, or employment on shore. Unless the Societies make special efforts to impress upon their seamen members the importance of their responsibilities in this latter respect, there will be a risk that any improvement in the collection of contributions in respect of foreign-going service which may result from the adoption of the schedule system, may be offset by a loss of income to the Societies in respect of employment of their members in the home service or on shore. 549. We have also given careful consideration to the question of the possibility of compulsorily transferring all seamen to one Society, but we feel that notwithstanding the advantages that would ensue the difficulties in the way of enforcing such an arrangement would in all probability prove insurmountable. Any such unification must. we think, be left to the Societies

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