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:: Minority report

Collection:: Economics Books

299 MINORITY REPORT. MAY 17 PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY, 1. We regret that we have not found ourselves able to accept those conclusions of the majority of Your Commissioners which, in our view, deal with the really essential problems of the Scheme of National Health Insurance, and we therefore crave leave to present separately our own views on these matters. (GENERAL. 2, The recommendations contained in the Majority Report may be considered in two parts, namely, those designed to im- prove details under whatever system National Health Insurance is administered, and those designed to secure improvements within the present system and within the present financial limits of the Scheme. With regard to the first part, we are in agreement with our colleagues except as to those matters to which we shall refer later, and with regard to the second part, we agree that in the main the recommendations will effect im- provements upon the existing system and within the present financial limits. We shall, however, refer later to certain recom- mendations which we feel will be of doubtful value. 3. The main questions of principle on which we differ from our colleagues are as follows :— (1) The evidence which we, in common with them, have heard, convinces us that it is undesirable to retain Approved Societies any longer as the agencies through which benefits paid in cash are distributed to insured persons: and (2) we do not accept the view that it is either necessary or proper to assume that we are to recommend no develop- ment intended to provide, in the words of the Act of 1911, ‘‘ for insurance against loss of health, and for the preven- tion and cure of sickness,”’ which cannot be paid for out of the produce of the contributory scheme of Health Insurance as it stands; and we feel it our duty to make recommendations in favour of :— (a) The provision of medical treatment and attendance for :— (i) children of school-leaving age; and (ii) dependants of insured persons; (b) Extended provision for child-bearing women before, at, and after confinement ; (¢) Increase of the rates of benefits paid in cash under the National Health Insurance Acts to the pre- sent rates under the Unemployment Insurance Acts.

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