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:: Reservation by Sir Andrew Duncan and Professor Alexander Gray

Collection:: Economics Books

2986 MAJORITY REPORT : RESERVATION. 12. Apart from emphasising the time-honoured truth that it is better to prevent the existence of disease than to cure it when it has emerged, we do not, however, think that the time is appropriate even for an adumbration of the practical con- clusions to which these considerations might lead. The problem, which should not be impracticable of solution, is to devise a method whereby society, while guaranteeing to every individual the opportunity of a reasonably complete life, shall yet be able to protect itself against the infusion of elements calculated to be a source of weakness. So far from the conjoint attainment of these two ends being impracticable, it may be suggested that the first and more visionary is possible of achievement only on condition that the second and less popular is in some measure realised. We have ventured to submit these observations, not with the object of making concrete suggestions, but rather in order to discourage an easy and prevalent optimism which lightly over- leaps the limits of the practical and attainable, and also in the hope that those who are impressed by the inadequacy of our national efforts on the health side may be led to seek for a deeper cause and so prepare the way for a more fruitful discussion of these matters. (Sioned) ANDREW R. DUNCAN. ALEXANDER (GRAY.

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