Organizacion política y económica de la Confederacion Argentina, que contiene: 1. Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina; 2. Elementos del derecho público provincial argentino; 3. Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederacion Argentina; 4. De la Integridad nacional de la República Argentina, bajo todos sus gobiernos

Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 825824427

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-50636

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Alberdi, Juan Bautista http://d-nb.info/gnd/118644254

Title:: Organizacion política y económica de la Confederacion Argentina, que contiene: 1. Bases y puntos de partida para la organización política de la República Argentina; 2. Elementos del derecho público provincial argentino; 3. Sistema económico y rentístico de la Confederacion Argentina; 4. De la Integridad nacional de la República Argentina, bajo todos sus gobiernos

Edition:: Nueva edicion oficial, corregida y revisada por el autor

Place of publication:: Besanzon

Publisher:: Impr. de José Jacquin

Year of publication:: 1856

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 870 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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MAJORITY REPORT. D55 do not suggest that it should be prohibited, provided that the interests of the insured members of the Societies are properly safeguarded. The amounts of the payments made by some Societies under arrangements of the kind in question are very considerable. In the case of the Prudential Approved Societies, sums totalling nearly £700,000 a year are paid out of the State Insurance funds to the Prudential Assurance Company, and these payments appear as single items in the accounts of the Approved Societies as submitted to the Treasury Auditor and to the insured members, no details being available of the manner in which the money is applied by the Company. We feel, therefore, that a serious responsibility rests upon the Central Departments to scrutinise closely the terms and conditions of any proposed arrangement of this kind before giving their approval. The National Amalgamated Approved Society informed us (Q. 4812- 4826) that the Companies with which the Society contracts make no profit out of the arrangement, while the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union (App. XLIII, 26; Q. 13,990. 14,006-14,008) stated that the Trade Union actually lost on the arrangement. We should have expected that very large Societies having at their disposal for the purposes of the administration of Nationa. Health Insurance all the machinery of a huge business undertaking, would have been able to carry out their National Insurance administration at an appreciably lower cost per head of membership than Approved Societies in general, and we are surprised to find that this is not in fact the case. We questioned witnesses representing the Prudential Approved Societies on the subject, and it appeared from their evidence (Q. 9750-9765) that, although a considerable reduction had recently been effected in the overhead charges of the parent Company as a result of certain measures of reorganisation, that reduction had not been reflected in the amount paid to the Company by the Approved Societies. We feel that it is only reasonable that the insured members of the Societies should receive some compensating advantage under arrangements of this character in return for their surrender of their ordinary right of scrutinising and criticising the detailed expenditure of the Society’s funds for purposes of administration, and we think that before giving their approval to such arrangements, the Central Departments should take all possible steps to satisfy themselves that this will be secured. 622. Our attention was also drawn (Kinnear, Q. 23549) to another type of case, in which an Approved Society pass over to the secretary the bulk of the money available for purposes of administration, and the secretary in return undertakes to contract for the whole adminis- trative work of the Society, the persons by whom the work is undertaken being appointed and paid by himself and not being responsible to the Committee of Management or the

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