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 VI. The financial burden of the existing social services

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MAJORITY REPORT. pan cannot bear any further burden at present, and, indeed, that the need for some aileviation of the load is most urgent and could be readily realised by a substantial reduction of the contributions of employers and employed persons under the Health Insurance Scheme. They maintain ‘‘ that there is a definite limit to the amount of money which any country can afford to spend in the providing of social services,”’ and that ‘“ that limit has in Great Britain already been largely exceeded, and particularly so in the case of Health Insurance ’’ (App. CVII, 6). They submit the following table to illustrate the relative position in the principal European countries and to show how heavy in comparison is the burden imposed on Great Britain in respect of five of the social services, viz. : Poor Law, Work- men’s Compensation, Old Age Pensions, Health Insurance and Unemployment Insurance :(— Cost of five Social Services per hee? F total population. ler cent. as compared with Great Britain. Country. I. Great Britain on 2. Germany ... a ». France a ps 4. Czecho-Slovakia ... J. Belgiom © J. 6. Italy... rot op 147. Special reference is made by the Confederation to the increase of contribution required to finance the new Contributory Pensions Scheme. Even after allowance is made for the reduc- tion in the Health Insurance contribution consequent upon the lowering of the age limit from 70 to 65, and the reduction in the Unemployment Insurance contribution which came into force at the same time, the net result is that the total weekly con- tribution for the Insurance Schemes has been raised from 2s. bd. to 2s. 9d. in the case of men. At the former rate the employer bore 1s. 3d., whereas he now bears 1s. 5d. 148. The following tables show the details of the changes to which effect has recently been given :— uy MEN. Health and Pensions Health Pensions. Total for Health and Pensions. Year. 1925 1926 Em- plover. bd. Aid | Worker. 5d. 114 Em- plover. 434d | ‘Worker. 43d Em- ployer. od. da | Worker. Total. bd. 0. 10d. 12 6d

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