Grundriß des deutschen Zollrechts

Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 1753937256

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129408

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lösener, Bernhard http://d-nb.info/gnd/122898427

Title:: Grundriß des deutschen Zollrechts

Place of publication:: Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig

Publisher:: Hermes

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: 153 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Dritter Teil. Das Zollverfahren

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IR MAJORITY REPORT. charge ultimately falls upon the resources of the nation. To that extent it necessarily reduces the possibility of imposing further large burdens for the purpose of promoting the national health. So long as funds available are limited there can, in our opinion, be no doubt as to the question whether expenditure should in the first place be directed towards the further promotion of health or to the provision of maintenance. For health and maintenance are not competing claimants for public expenditure. They are indeed closely related. Without maintenance there can be no health ; it would be futile to seek to promote the health of those without the means of life. Those who are unemployed, their wives and their children must be fed, clothed and housed. Having regard to the existing provision for the promotion of health made by the Local Authorities and under the Insurance Scheme, large additions to the cash benefits and wide expansions of the scope of medical treatment, however desirable in themselves, must, in our opinion, definitely take a second place to the provision of the primary means of life. HuALTH INSURANCE AND CONTRIBUTORY PENSIONS CHARGES. 141. The present appropriation for National Health Insurance is about #£39,000,000 a year. The charge is spread over the employers, the employed persons, and the State, in the follow- ing way: employers, £14 millions; employed persons, £13 millions ; the State, £7 millions. The balance of £5,000,000 is derived from interest on accumulated funds. But the total sum, from whatever source it may be immediately derived, is ultimately a charge on the productive capacity of the country. Similarly the Widows’, Orphans’, and Old Age Contributory Pensions Act, which has just come into operation, involves imme- diate annual charges of £11 millions, £11 millions, and £4 millions respectively on the three members of the co-partner- ship, a total of £26,000,000. Thus for the three schemes of social insurance now in operation, the total annual charge on the productive powers of the country is £115 millions, of which the charce on the Excheauer is about £24 millions. THE BURDEN OF OTHER SOCIAL SERVICES. 142. The latest figures available from the Return annually submitted to Parliament showing the cost of public social services in Great Britain indicate that the expenditure on services other than those on an insurance basis is approximately as follows :—

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