La réforme syndicale en Italie

Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 174739971X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-125215

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: La réforme syndicale en Italie

Place of publication:: Rome

Publisher:: [Verlag nicht ermittelbar]

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: 207 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VII. Rapport de la commission du sénat

Collection:: Economics Books

~N MAJORITY REPORT, of interest due to the War which, as all are aware, has added enormously to the burdens of the taxpayer. The remaining cause of the reduction is the lapse from insurance of a consider. able proportion of those who were brought within the Scheme at the outset and in respect of whom reserve values, which have subsequently been withdrawn, were provided. 190. The balance of margin in the contribution may be estimated as equivalent, with the appropriate State grant, to £22 millions a year. This margin is due to extraneous causes, among the most important of which is the general increase in the rate of interest on post-War investments, to which we have referred above. No income tax is payable on the interest earn- ings of Approved Societies, and the members of those Societies, accordingly, secure the full benefit of this increase and are able to claim additional State grant in respect of a rate which itself re- flects the weight of a national burden from which they are free. Having regard to the fact that the additional resources made available to the insured in this way and in the appreciation of investments which has already been realised will go almost in their entirety to supplement the benefits originally provided by Parliament, it is clear that the relations between the general body of insured persons and the Exchequer are more favourable to the former than has been generally supposed hitherto. While we have felt bound here to explain the situation in which this result arises, we do not desire what we have said to be regarded as. qualifying the recommendations which we make in later chapters of our Report in regard to the application of any margin in the existing scheme. 191. We have recommended, in paragraph 182, that the cost of medical benefit, not hitherto borne by the funds of Approved Societies and expected to amount in future to about 3s. a year for each insured person, should now be placed upon those funds. On this recommendation a question arises with reference to the rate of contribution for men who are serving with the Forces of the Crown and to the special foreign-going rate of contribution for men of the Mercantile Marine. These rates of contribution are reduced, in each case, by the equivalent of the normal benefits which are not provided for insured persons in the classes to which they respectively relate, and, as a consequence, the rate for men in the Forces is 33d. a week instead of 9d., and the foreign-going seaman’s rate is 7d. instead of 9d. One of the benefits not pro- vided for men who are serving with the Forces is medical benefit : so far as the Mercantile Marine is concerned, this benefit is not provided for a man while he is on foreign articles, and the liabi. lity for any medical attention that he may require rests upon his employer under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. When, therefore, the cost of medical benefit in the case of civilian insured persons is increased, the reductions already made from the normal contribution in the case of these special

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