Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Bibliographic data

Monograph

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Monograph

Structure type:: Chapter

Title:: Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous questions

Collection:: Economics Books

4: MAJORITY REPORT. Eo to provide for an increase of sickness benefit in excess of bs a week is to impress upon the Society the importance of treat- ment benefits and to induce it to allocate a reasonable proportion of the surplus to those benefits. We consider that this practice should be continued. 605. Beyond this we do not consider it desirable to lay down any fixed statutory limit to the amount which a Society may devote out of its surplus to the provision of cash increases, and we are of opinion that the question of the disposal of a surplus should be determined in accordance with the wishes of the members, subject to a reasonable control by the Department. We do not therefore recommend any change in the present position in this matter. SECTION H.—MISCELILAANEOUS QUESTIONS AFFECTING APPROVED SOCIETIES. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES WITH FEW MEMBERS IN A PARTICULAR NATIONAL AREA. 606. The Act does not lay down as a condition of continued approval for any national area (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales) any minimum limit as to the number of members of an international Society resident in that area. We are informed that cases have arisen in which such Societies have retained approval in respect of one or more national areas other than that in which the head office of the Society is situated although the membership in such areas may be negligible compared with the total membership of the Society. Notwith- standing its small membership in one or other of the national areas, the Society is required in such cases to keep separate accounts in respect of its business in each country and to draw its funds from the several National Health Insurance Funds for the various countries. It has been suggested to us (Kinnear, Q. 23,652-23,656) that, in order to simplify administration in such cases the Minister or the National Health Insurance Joint Committee should be empowered to withdraw approval in respect of any country in which an international Society has a very small membership. The effect of this would be that the Society would lose the right to accept as new members persons resident in the country in question, a right, it may be observed, which they cannot have energetically exercised in the past. : We accept the view that in the interests of administrative efficiency it is desirable to make provision to this effect. We accordingly recommend that Section 30 (2) of the Act should be amended so as to provide that where the number of members of an international Society who are resident in any country, other than that in which the head office of the Society is situated, is less than a specified small percentage of the total membership, and is not more than a certain number, approval may be withdrawn

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

Monograph

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation