HEALTH INSURANCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 65, 18 March 1943, Page 5

HEALTH INSURANCE

DETAILS OF CANADIAN PLAN

(Rec. 9 a.m.) RUGBY, March 17. The Canadian,advisory committee on health insurance expresses the view that health insurance must «go hand in hand with a broad" programme of preventive health measures. The model provincial Bill is constructed upon the principles of compulsion and cpntribution. All adults whose wages, earnings, or incomes come within a certain formula of adequacy will be required to pay their own contributions.' A husband, if he can afford it as measured by the standard laid down, will pay for his wife, but the cost for the children will be distributed over the whole contributing population. The benefits consist of complete medical and nursing services, hospital service on the general ward basis, medicines within an approved list of standard remedies, and dental care to the extent to which existing dental facilities are capable of providing. Cash benefits are not included in the measure-, as it is considered that this will* come more appropriately under unemployment insurance. There are two methods of collecting contributions. The whola population is to be registered. Recipients of income will be divided into two groups, known as employed contributors and assessed contributors. A contribution from employers is contemplated.