Die Arbeiterfrage

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Identifikator:: 1896057985

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-235061

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Análise de alguns indicadores demográficos

Place of publication:: Lisboa

Publisher:: Tipografia Portuguesa

Year of publication:: 1953

Scope:: 50 S.; graph. Darst

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. - Mortalidade infantil endogena e exogena

Collection:: Economics Books

318 MINORITY REPORT. effected and that further improvement would follow the extension of medical benefit to the whole nation. ‘Illness is now coming under skilled observation and treatment at an earlier stage than wag formerly the case,” is the considered view of the British Medical Association, a development ‘which, however desirable among the insured population, must be even more desirable for young children and mothers. ‘The public health is the primary asset of the nation’s welfare, whether measured by capacity, employability and production or by length of days or by personal well-being.”” (Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health, 1924, Para. 586) and * Wise pro- gress is not to be looked for in the curtailment of public medical services . . . . but for their prudent establishment and where necessary their extension on sound lines . . . . Public assistance, insurance and education are the three great principles which seem to lie at the foundation of a public health service.” (Para. 587). 92. So far from agreeing with the argument that the provision of medical benefit to dependants would postpone or impede the establishment of a fully developed public medical service as fore- shadowed in the Majority Report, we feel confident that it would, on the contrary, further the realisation of that scheme. We therefore recommend that Medical Benefit should be provided for the dependants of insured persons and that the immediate ex- penditure should be met by the Exchequer and the local rates in equal proportions. RATES OF SICKNESS AND DISABLEMENT BENEFITS. 93. The inadequacy of the rates of these benefits would, in our judgment, be sufficient reason for recommending an increase, but attention was drawn to the disparity between the rates of benefit under the National Health Insurance Act and the Unem- ployment Insurance Act by witnesses representing the Depart- ment, Friendly Societies and Trade Union Approved Societies. Qir Walter Kinnear referred to the difference as °° rather anomalous >’ and ‘as difficult to defend,” and expressed am opinion (Q. 473) which supports the view of the Hearts of Oak Benefit Society, that ‘** formerly people on the border line of incapacity would tend to go on the sick fund. They will not do s0 now, because it pays them to receive unemployment benefit *’ (Q. 3368). Our colleagues repeatedly express their opinion “that it is difficult to justify a less generous provision for the invalid than for the man who is in good health, whose circum- stances certainly involve smaller expenditure.” 94. The necessity for uniformity in the rates of benefit does not dispose of the whole matter. We think it not unreasonable to suppose that unemployed persons will delay in obtaining medical advice and treatment under the Health Insurance Act, lest they should be disentitled to the higher rates of the Unem-

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