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

MINORITY REPORT. 3p) ht © Benefit Claims in its findings (para. 34) recommended °° that a new benefit should be created payable to a pregnant woman in respect of the last four weeks of pregnancy whether she is in- capacitated or not, and that payment should be made to a pregnant woman who is incapacitated from following her occupa- tion in the month previous to the last month, whether she is incapacitated by pregnancy alone, or by pregnancy accompanied by some other condition.” 111. It was suggested by the National Association of Trade Union Approved Societies (Q. 22,084) that ‘‘ there are great numbers in Class K, indeed in all classes, who cannot appreciate their rights under the Act, otherwise the number of claims would be much greater than they are,” and Sir Walter Kinnear expressed surprise at the low percentage of women who claimed sickness benefit in Class K, and was of opinion that they were ** not aware in the early stages that they are entitled to sicknesss benefit »’ (Q. 24,228.) 112. We submit that the evidence on the subject of the varying practice in the payment of sickness claims during pregnancy amongst Approved Societies, submitted by the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women’s Organisations is of particular value inasmuch as it may be considered to be the evidence of insured persons themselves. ‘* They have got more knowledge of it than they used to have, but there is real chaos on the subject. It is not only the insured women but if is the Societies and the doctors who are also doubtful about it. We have, for instance, informa- tion from a doctor that he may not give sickness benefit until the last four weeks of pregnancy. That is a statement of a doctor made to the secretary of one of our women’s organisations. We have another statement, in fact we have the same statement, made about two Societies, that they do not give it at all, and about another that they do not give it until the last weeks. Further, there is the fact that some women think they have a right to it at a certain time . . . . On the whole, far fewer women apply for it than need it because of all these doubts . . . . Many insured women cannot afford to have a doctor for their confine- ment . . . . and they do not like to go and ask him for a certificate during pregnancy when they are not engaging him for confinement ** (Q. 23,036.) 113. We submit that maternity benefit should be, in the case of the uninsured wife of an insured man, a cash payment of 20s. and in the case of an insured woman, maintenance for the mother and child at a rate not less than that of sickness benefit, for a period of twelve weeks, being not more than six weeks before and six weeks after confinement. 114. The conditions attaching to the payment of this benefit could be designed to encourage such ante-natal treatment as may

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