Report of the Royal Commission on National Health Insurance

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Identifikator:: 861689208

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-94745

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Pohlman, Adolf http://d-nb.info/gnd/139782702

Title:: Laienbrevier der National-Ökonomie

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Voigtländer

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (215 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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MINORITY REPORT. 329 young persons under the age of 16 years. We feel, on the con- trary, that as the combined Health, Pensions, and Unemploy- ment Insurance contributions represent a material proportion of the cost of cheap labour, there is a danger of a discrimination in favour of the employment of children under 16 years of age in certain industries. It is not easy to obtain direct evidence that Insurance contributions are a factor in this connexion, but the following very guarded statement from the London Advisory Council for Juvenile Employment Report, 1924-25, is illumi- nating : ** Those interested in the industrial welfare of juveniles have thought that the operation of Trade Board rates and the Unemployment Insurance Acts has caused certain employers to discharge their juveniles as soon as they reach 16 years in order to replace them by younger and cheaper workers. “The informa- tion available has been carefully scrutinised in this connexion ; only one per cent of the cases taken in J uly, 1924, and 0-3 per cent. of the cases taken in December, 1924, appear to have been discharged from this reason, but care should be exercised not to place undue weight on these figures as it is possible that of those whose discharge is attributed to slackness of trade,” &c., and amounting to 60 per cent. of the register there may be many who should be included in the category under consideration. In this same connexion it is interesting to note that the largest bercentage of unemployed girls was to be found both in J uly and in December in the 16-17 age group.’ 120. It might be denied that insurability is a factor but it is not unreasonable to suggest that everything else being accounted for, employers will give preference to uninsured Persons. 121. We think that the advantages to the nation of an unin- terrupted medical service throughout life completely outweigh any hypothetical disadvantages in relation to a public policy which will in due course be decided from motives not related to National Health Insurance. 122. We recommend therefore (1) that the Act be amended to bring into insurance all persons employed after having reached the statutory school-leaving age; (2) that young persons shail be entitled from the date of their entry into insurance to medical benefit, possibly also a modified cash benefit, and to such treat- ment benefits as may be prescribed, with such administrative safeguards as may be considered necessary. SOURCES OF REVENUE. 123. We have recommended that the cost of the extension of fedical benefit as recommended in the Majority Report and the balance of the cost of the existing medical benefit should be met by the Exchequer and the local rates. We have also recommended

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