Report on the Beveridge proposals
1943-01-19 1943 1940s 20 pages 14. somewhat higher figure to include benefits for wives and children, while persons above the salary limit should be able to enter voluntarily on proper terms. The omission of dependants from health insurance has generally been regarded as a serious gap in the service...
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| Summary: | 1943-01-19
1943
1940s
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14. somewhat higher figure to include benefits for wives and children, while persons above the salary limit should be able to enter voluntarily on proper terms. The omission of dependants from health insurance has generally been regarded as a serious gap in the services available to the insured population. The view of the majority of the Committee is that when this gap is filled, and a very high percentage of the population is thus covered, a compulsory scheme for health insurance for the whole population (including an extended panel system for everybody regardless of income) would so narrow private practice as virtually to destroy it, with an inevitable lowering of standards in the medical profession. NOTE: Miss Horsbrugh and Miss Johnston favour a comprehensive system based on compulsory contributions for all. 3. HEALTH INSURANCE. Should Approved Societies be superseded? Is it not possible to meet the main objections to the present system by amendment rather than by abolition? The Committee found itself divided on the question of the proposed supersession of the Approved Societies. One section of the Committee, supporting the principle of equal benefits for equal contributions, considers that it cannot be reconciled with a system by which the benefits of contributors varies according to the individual valuation results of the different Approved Societies; that the introduction of one card which the Committee would like makes the retention of Approved Societies unnecessary; that even if the pooling of disposable surpluses were introduced to remove disparities in benefits it can only be at a proportion which deprived Societies of any incentive to good management; and that the interests of a unified scheme makes it necessary to dispense with the system of Approved Societies. The other section of the Committee declares itself in favour of the retention of the Approved Societies even if it involves inequality of benefits in some respects. This section considers that during their thirty years existence the Approved
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