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 III. The general attitude to the health insurance scheme

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MAJORITY REPORT. and the Approved Societies as agencies for the administration of the health and cash benefits, respectively. So far as Approved Societies are concerned, this is not so much one question as a whole group of questions calling for careful consideration from many different angles, GENERAL SATISFACTION WITH THE SCHEME, 28. All these grounds of criticism, as well as the suggestions received by us in connection with various details of the Scheme and our proposals for its modification and extension, are dealt with in the succeeding chapters of our Report. In this place we have restricted ourselves to summary mention of these points in order to give a preliminary view of the problems before us. We can, however, say at once that we are satisfied that the Scheme of National Health Insurance has fully justified itself and has, on the whole, been successful in operation. The workers of this country have obtained under it. substantial advantages, in particular by securing the title to free medical attention and medicine whenever and as soon as these are required, and by the proportionate diminution, to the extent of the cash benefit granted, of their anxiety as to the loss of wages during illness. Furthermore, the Scheme has, on the whole, been satisfactorily administered, notwithstanding the difficulties and antagonisms at the outset, and the peculiar and urgent problems which arose when vast numbers of men left insurable employment for the theatres of war and their place in the industries of the country was taken by women entering insur- ance, consequently, for the first time. The contributions have been collected and the benefits provided with a marked degree of efficiency. We are convinced that National Health Insurance has now become a permanent feature of the social system of this country, and should be continued on its present compulsory and contributory basis. At the same time, if the Scheme is to be made of the fullest advantage to the health and well-being of the nation, there are, in our opinion, various modifications and extensions that could, with advantage, be made, as and when opportunity offers and funds become available

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