NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21410, 28 February 1935, Page 20

NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE

+ SCHEME WOULD COST £1,750,000 CONSIDERATION TO BE GIVE* BY HOSPITAL BOARDS After a protracted authorised by the general confers of the Hospital Boards of New land in 1929, the executive of tben pital Boards' Association has wous" down an exhaustive report on na ■ . health insurance. This report, copi which were circulated among ® _ bers of the North Canterbmy * , pital Board at its meeting ye will be considered at the gener ference of hospital boards next month. , which The report, a summary o was published in "The Pr f. ss . 0 f the ary 26, gives a rough"estrrai idiß g annual cost of a scheme P benefits for 800,000 personsiltno receipt of salaries and wag than £312 per annum and thenpendents), as £1,750,000. 0 . The report suggested that fce quiry would necessarily h , a „d undertaken by the Government, that the scope of such enq , u s y nat ional include:—(a) The scope o schel r.e compulsory health insu j g . §) and the class of P er ® on .® jrftration; < c j the machinery for adm an d rate 01 the method of collection contributions: (d'« the ben ® t he It was also suggested tha quiry to be undci'taken y 0 { eminent would include! ro { e ssio n ' evidence from the D harma ce ' J ' hospital authorities the p $e t : cal profession, friendly s government actuary, and the v ment of Health.