Volume 1

Report of the departmental committee on sickness benefit claims under the National Insurance Act.

  • Great Britain. Sickness Benefits Claims Committee.
Date:
1914
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the departmental committee on sickness benefit claims under the National Insurance Act. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. —___ INTRODUCTORY. Section Page Pr CLASSIFICATION OF WITNESSES EXAMINED BY THE COMMITTEE - - atari | 3-5. NATURE OF THE PROBLEM TO BE INVESTIGATED - - ~ ~ Ee CERTAIN FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED, 6. Insured persons - - - - - - . : ~ atere c Doctors — - : , 4 E . 3 2 Z Se bard 8. Approved Societies - - - - - - - 5 =) =p THE BENEFITS UNDER THE ACT. 9, Sickness and Disablement Benefit 4 - = Z Z - - 8 10-12. Medical and Maternity Benefit - 2 = = = 2 = RT x: GENERAL SURVEY OF MACHINERY SET UP BY THE ACT. 13-14. THE COMMISSIONERS - - 2 = -. a i Le PTS Tue APPROVED SOCIETIES. 15-17. Number and Nature of Government - - 3 a 2 5 = (4:5 18-19. Differences in Character of Membership - - - - - - <td 20. Segregation in certain Societies of certain Types of Lives - . . 6 21. Consequent variation in meaning of words “ Incapable of Work” - . =t56 22. Responsibility of Societies as regards Payment of Claims - - . =0656 THe MeEpicaL PROFESSION. 23-25. Nature of Arrangements with Practitioner - & 4 = - - 6 26-27. Duty of Certification - - : : 4 2 : Shay 28-30. Relations between Societies and Doctors in the Past = - - - =} aa] wile Attitude in the Past towards Doctors’ Certificates 2 = - - JES 32. The Necessity of “ Questioning ” the Doctor’ s Certificate . - - APRS 33-35. Practice of Societies in the Past - - - - - - 4219 36. Necessity of maintaining Old Practice - . - - - - - 10 ot INSURED PERSONS” - - - = = - 2 - - 10 38. Difficulty of Generalisation - - - - - - - - 10 39-40. Provisions of Section 72 of the National Insurance Act, 1911 - - - suo 41. Failure of Section 72 - . = = = - = - cate Gl 42-44 Extent of Double Insurance - - - = = - = - ll 45. Cases of Multiple Insurance - - - - - : ~ he od 46. Effect of “‘ Over-insurance’’ on Sickness Claims - “ - = = Said 47. Meaning of Over-insurance - - - - - - - - 12 48, Effects of a Deposit System - - = - - : i ee be 49-50. Suggested Remedies - - - - _- - - - 13 ‘ole Possible Action by Approved ehcictics - = - - = - = te oe. Novelty of Insurance = - - - - < “ - 14 53-58. Unwillingness to bring the Perea: of Incapacity to an end - - - - 4 59. Existence of illness previously unsuspected - = - - = - 15 60. Possibility of an ultimate reduction in Sickness Claims — - - - - - 16 61. Danger of development of valetudinarian spirit - . - - - - 16 62. The loss of the old Friendly Society Spirit - - . - - - 17 THE QUESTION OF EXCESSIVE SICKNESS CLAIMS VIEWED IN RELATION TO THE ADMINISTRATION BY SOCIETIES. 63. Tur EXPERIENCE OF SOCIETIES - - - - - - EAS 64. General Average Figures - = - - 2 - - - V7 65. Old Friendly Societies = - - - - - - - - - 18 66. Women’s Friendly Societies - - - - - - - =e 19 67. Rural Federations - - - - - - - - mu ky 68-71 Trade Unions = : : - - - . 2 - +020 12. Societies connected with Industrial Insurance Companies - aS - - - 21 78. Other Societies - ‘ : - - - - - - 21 CAUSES OF VARIATION IN EXPERIENCE. 74. Obscurity of causes for local variations — - - : : » . - 21 TDs Influence of Doctors in producing local variations - = - - - aD? 76-77. Influence of the Insured Persons in producing local variations - - - =| 22 78. Administrative causes for different experiences in the same Society or in different Societies 23 A 25048 A 3