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

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MINORITY REPORT. 307 possible (Neil, Q. 4442). °° .... it is simply that the machinery is not there.”” (Kinnear, Q. 23,576.) 39. In general the evidence proves conclusively that member- ship control ** is largely theoretical ”* (Kinnear, Q. 578) and that “as a general rule the great majority of insured persons take little or no interest in the government of their Society.” (Kinnear, Q. 515; see also Brock, Q. 959). The number of members necessary to form a quorum at a General Meeting of a Society, given in Table 3, and the following paragraphs of the evidence of the Department (Section B of Appendix I) em- phasises the absurdity of the so-called ** membership control ** :— 23. It will be seen that at one end of the scale, eight members constitute a quorum in the case of the Mayfield Temperance Friendly Society (Approval No. 1274) a small local Society, consisting of 48 members. Yet even this restricted quorum could not be obtained in 1922. At the other end of the scale is the Liverpool Victoria Approved Society (Approval No. 119) which, with nearly half a million members, is required by its rules to have a quorum of 12, whether insured persons or not, including any officers and members of the committee present, who themselves number eight. 24. Similarly with the large industrial Approved Societies, such as the National Amalgamated (Approval No. 125) and the Prudential Societies (Approval Nos. 136 and 137). The former has over two million members, and the requisite quorum is 50 in England, and 20 in Scotland, including the officers and Committee men, who themselves number about 20. - The rules of the two large Prudential Societies each with over one million members, also provide that 50 members, including any officers and members of the Committee pire- sent, shall form a quorum.” 40. This, considered together with the evidence given on this subject by representatives of the Industrial Societies (Q. 4515- 4529, 4568-4743), leads us to the conclusion that the intentions of Parliament in this respect have not been fulfilled. Tae INCENTIVE TO (GOOD MANAGEMENT, 41. We have shown that the members as such are not interested in the management of their Societies, but it is claimed that the officers are able so to develop their system of adminis- tration as to exercise a vital influence upon valuation results. 42. We agree with our colleagues that thes effect of this incentive upon the valuation results is grossly exaggerated, and that other factors, occupational and otherwise, are the predomi- nating causes of the great disparities in the surpluses declared.

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