National health insurance
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O Brolchain, R. 'Symposium on Irish social services: national health insurance'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XVII No. 1, 1942/1943, pp125-129Download Item:
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Abstract:
It is necessary, in any consideration of the National Health Insurance
scheme, to bear in mind a number of important factors.
(a) It was established initially to relieve the excessive demands
on the Poor Law, following the report of the famous Poor
Law Commission of 1909.
(b) The basic Act which governs health insurance is an English
Act, passed for both England and Ireland in 1911.
(c) In its application to Ireland, the Act was robbed of an
essential feature?the provision of free medical treatment for
insured persons.
(d) The scheme is based on the principle that every insured person
(with a slight difference as between men and women) pays
the same weekly contribution and receives the same weekly
benefit, irrespective of earnings. (e) No benefit is payable during incapacity coming under the
provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act, the
Employer's Liability Acts, or the Common Law.
(f) No allowance was made for the predominance of agricultural
employment in Ireland as compared with industrial employment
in England.
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Read March 5th 1943
Author: O Brolchain, R.
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Symposium on Irish Social ServicesPublisher:
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XVII No. 1 1942/1943
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