National health insurance : explanatory statement as to medical benefit as affecting medical practitioners / presented to Parliament by command of His Majesty.

Date:
1912
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Credit: National health insurance : explanatory statement as to medical benefit as affecting medical practitioners / presented to Parliament by command of His Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    < c* i Provision of Medical Benefit as affecting Medical Practiticiners. Introductory. 1. It has been brought to the notice of the National Health Insurance Commissioners that a concise official explanation of the general effect of the National Insurance Act and the Hegulations as to Medical Benefit made thereunder would be helpful to medical practitioners at the present time. This explanatory statement is issued accordingly. I. —Persons entitled to Medical Attendance and Treatment. 2. The persons who are compulsorily insured under the Act include (subject to exceptions which need not be gone into here) all manual workers and all persons employed at a rate of remuneration not exceeding £160 per annum. Persons who, though not employed by anyone else, are wffiolly or mainly depen- dent on some regular occupation for their livelihood may be insured as voluntary contributors if their income from all sources does not exceed £160 per annum. 3. Every insured person is entitled to Medical Benefit, but all insured persons are not necessarily entitled to receive attendance and treatment under the arrangements made by Insurance Com- mittees under the Act. The exceptions are explained under the heading of ‘‘ Own Arrangements.” Condition of Insured as to Health. 4. The fact that the insured must be in employment or engaged in some regular occupation at the time of entering into insurance must result in the average standard of health among the insured being somewhat higher than in the population as a whole. The amount of sickness may be expected to be approximately the same as in ordinary Friendly Societies. II. —The General Arrangements for giving Attendance and Treatment to the Insured. Panel System. 5. Insured persons may obtain their attendance and treatment in any of several ways. The normal system is under arrange- ments made by the Insurance Committee on the lines described below under the heading of The Panel System.” (27753r—I.C.) Wt. 33715—881. 6,000 & 90. 12/12. D & S.—2. A