MAJORITY REPORT.
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CHAPTER XIII
MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS.
450. In this Chapter we propose to bring together and discuss a
large number of suggestions which we have received in the course
of our inquiry, directed towards various modifications in the
existing scheme of National Health Insurance. In dealing with
a measure so complex as the subject of our investigation has
proved to be, bearing so intimately on the daily life of almost every
member of the community in one way or another, and so closely
related to every aspect of social legislation, it was only to be
expected that there should be a vast number of proposals for
amendment of one or other of the many sections of the Act or
of the regulations made thereunder. Some of these proposals are
in their way directed to fundamental points of principle ; a few
may appear to relate rather to matters of administrative detail. In
bringing them together for discussion in this Chapter we desire to
guard ourselves against any suggested implication that these
matters, being of a miscellaneous are therefore of an unimportant
character. We have adopted this arrangement because the
questions which we now propose to discuss do not fall naturally
within the scope of any of the main sections into which we have
divided our Report.
451. The subjects dealt with are classified under the following
ten main headings :—
A.—Persons to be included in the Scheme.
B.—Payment of Contributions.
C.—Administration of the Cash Benefits.
D.—Special Classes of Insured Persons.
T.— Valuation of Societies and Provision of Addi-
tional Benefits.
F.—Extension and Alteration of the Tist of
Additional Benefits.
G.—Limitation on Increases in Cash Benefits.
H.— Miscellaneous Questions affecting Approved
Societies.
K.—Other Miscellaneous Questions.
TL.—Audit of Accounts.
SECTION A.—PERSONS TO BE
SOHEME.
INCLUDED IN THE
EMrLOYED CONTRIBUTORS.
4592. The classes of persons who, under the existing Scheme,
are subject to compulsory insurance are set out in Part I of the
First Schedule to the Act and include briefly persons between
