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 XIV. Summary of conclusions and recommendations

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MAJORITY REPORT. NT applied to its full extent towards meeting the cost of extending the statutory benefits. (paras. 183-186.) (21) That Section 67 of the Act should be amended to provide that the amount of the weekly contribution to be devoted to providing interest on and redemption of reserve values be reduced from 1d. in the case of men and from nine-tenths of 1d. in the case of women to such amounts as may be actuarially shown to be necessary without disturbing the redemption period, after the charges and readjustments have been settled. (para. 194.) (22) That Section 67 should also be amended to provide that the amount of the weekly contribution to be retained for the purposes of the Contingencies Funds and Central Fund should be reduced from five-ninths of 1d. to one farthing in the case of men, and from two-fifths of 1d. to one farthing in the case of women. (para. 194.) (23) That the maximum proportion of these reduced sums to be paid to the Central Fund should be increased from one-eighth to one-fourth. (para. 194.) (24) That Section 76 (5) of the Act should be amended to pro- vide that consequentially on the reduction of the contribution to the Contingencies Funds, the whole (instead of a maximum of one-half) of the balances of the Contingencies Funds of all Societies with less than 1,000 members should be liable to be pooled to make good deficiencies in any such Societies. (para. 194.) (25) That the balances accruing to the credit of the Reserve Suspense Fund after the 31st December, 1926, should be made available for averting deficencies which would otherwise arise on the valuation of Approyed Societies by reason of the imposition on their funds of the proposed new charges. (para. 194.) (26) That consequent upon the placing of the liability for the whole cost of medical benefit on the funds of Approved Societies, the appropriate changes should be made in the rates of contribution of men serving with the Forces of the Crown, foreign-going seamen of the Mercantile Marine, and voluntary contributors with incomes exceeding £250 a year and that, in the event of the provision of allowances for dependants of insured persons, a further appropriate adjustment should be made in the contribution payable in respect of men serving in the Forces of the Crown. (paras. 191-193.) i“ THE APPROVED SOCIETY SYSTEM. (27) That the Approved Society system as a means for the administration of the cash benefits of National Health Insurance should be retained, but that this question might have to be reconsidered in the event of fundamental changes being made in the system of social insurance. (paras. 292-223.) 54 a70% \

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