More Facts and Fallacies of Compulsory Health Insurance (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...with a state system, in which all physicians electing to come under the act practice on equal terms, and patients choose for themselves among those physicians." By removing the causes of poverty, on the one hand, and of ill-health, on the other, the standard of life is raised sufficiently to enable wage-earners to provide for their own needs in the event of sickness, in their own way and at their own cost, far more effectively and in a much more satisfactory manner than can ever be done by a compulsory health-insurance system. The "Reasons for Standards" conclude with the statement that the method of payment of physicians is more fully discussed by Dr. Woods Hutchinson. It would require many volumes to present the evidence to be derived from British medical periodicals as to the apparently hopeless problem of meeting the reasonable requirements of doctors for adequate compensation. (The paper by Dr. Woods Hutchinson seemingly based on personal investigation, is limited to less than seven pages, and presents a superficial view of current problems rather than a critical analysis of extremely important questions at issue for years past and at the present time between the British medical profession and the British Government. In the outline of the act provision is made for hospital treatment, which is not included under the British act; maternity benefit which is recommended should be excluded in the report of the Fabian Research Department; dental clinics also are not included under the British act; and special tuberculosis treatment, which has thus far in Great Britain been far from satisfactory and in its operation rather opposed to modern methods of effective institutional care; nor does the British act provide for funeral benefits, which by ...