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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249 MAJORITY REPORT. SECTION F.—EXTENSION OR ALTERATION OF THE LIST OF ADDITIONAL: BENEFITS. 591. A list of the additional benefits, one or more of which may be adopted by a Society in the enjoyment of a disposable surplus on valuation, is contained in the Third Schedule to the Act and in the Regulations made under paragraph 14 of that Schedule. The list comprises, in all, no fewer than 19 different benefits, and we have had to consider whether additions to the list are desirable, or whether, on the other hand, any of the items included in the present list are for any reason unsuitable or redundant, and might, therefore, with advantage be deleted. On this subject we have had some interesting evidence from the Ministry of Health (see App. I, B, 201-219, and Kinnear, Q. 23,687-23,718). We have already referred in Chapter V to some of the more important of the present additional benefits and have indicated to what extent they have been adopted by Societies. We will now deal with some of the benefits included in the list which have been adopted by very few Societies or have not been put into operation at all. ProroSED REMOVAL FROM PRESENT LIST. 592. No. 1 on the list of additional benefits is *‘ medical treat- ment and attendance for any person dependent upon the labour of a member.” ' On this, Sir Walter Kinnear said, ** As far as England is concerned, this benefit has never been adopted by any Society, and the provision is really one appropriate for consideration in connexion with the general scope of medical benefit. Tt is scarcely suitable as an additional benefit. It is of much greater importance than the question of a mere additional benefit, and its cost would be much greater than could possibly be given, as far as I can conceive, by any individual Society as an additional benefit. I therefore suggest that that additional benefit should be eliminated * (Q. 23,687). We agree that an extension of the scope of medical benefit of the kind contemplated should not be made by way of an additional benefit out of the surplus funds of certain Societies, and we would point out, moreover, that, in accordance with Section 75 (5) of the Act, this particular benefit, if adopted by any Society, would have to be administered, not by the Society itself, but by the Insurance Committee or other body responsible for the administration of medical benefit. On the ground of its impracticability under present conditions, we therefore recom- mend that it should be removed from the list of additional benefits. 593. No. 3 on the list is ‘‘ an increase of sickness benefit and disablement benefit in the case either of all members of the Society, or of such of them as have any children or any specified number of children, wholly or in part dependent upon

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