MODEL BILL FOR HEALTH INSURANCE
Model Bill for Health Insurance A Prime "Preparedness" Measure A TENTATIVE draft of an act to provide for compulsory health insurance of wage earners appears in a pamphlet just issued by the...
...Alexander Lambert, chairman of the Judicial Council of the American Medical Association, and I. M. Rubinow, actuary, and author of "Social Insurance...
...To administer the benefits, employers and employees are to be grouped in mutual associations, supervised by the state and organized according to trade and locality...
...Model Bill for Health Insurance A Prime "Preparedness" Measure A TENTATIVE draft of an act to provide for compulsory health insurance of wage earners appears in a pamphlet just issued by the American Association for Labor Legislation...
...It is anticipated, says The Journal of the American Medical Association, that this method of organization, with the possibility of reducing insurance rates with an improvement in health and of co-operating with the public health authorties, will lead to an effective campaign for the conservation of health...
...This will entail no hew expense for the working man, since the contributions of the employer and the state will enable the working man to purchase the full benefits of the act for the same outlay he now makes for burial insurance alone...
...This tentative draft provides that the cost of insurance is to be distributed among employers, employees and the state...
...S. S. Goldwater, late commissioner of public health of the city of New York...
...This pamphlet, containing the thirty-page outline of a bill and an explanation of its provisions, embodies the results of three years' study by the social insurance committee of that association, which has been particularly fortunate in having the aid of the country's leading experts, including, among others, Miles M. Dawson, actuary, and joint author of Workingman's Insurance in Europe...
...The benefits included within the draft are medical care, nursing attendance, medical and surgical supplies for a limited period, cash payments during sickness for a maximum of twenty-six weeks in a year, special obstetric aid for the family, and a funeral benefit on the death of the insured...
Vol. 8 • May 1916 • No. 5
