Word: caja
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice of Santiago as a common meeting ground recognized Chile's hemisphere prominence in social-security legislation. Since 1925 Chile's Caja de Seguro Obligatorio (Obligatory Social Insurance Board) has provided sickness and maternity benefits, pensions for invalids and the aged...
...Hitler named Jorge González von Marées tried to stage a Putsch in behalf of onetime President General Carlos Ibañez del Campo. In the course of the proceedings 60 Nacista youths and a couple of innocent insurance salesmen who had barricaded themselves in the Caja de Seguro Obrero (Workers' Insurance Building) were shot or bayoneted after surrender. Popular disgust with the Government of President Arturo Alessandri, as well as with the Nacistas, brought to power the Popular Front, and to the Presidency the onetime high-school professor who is called Don Tinto because...
Glancing at the Caja de Seguro Obrero, as he must have done many a time in the last few critical weeks, Don Tinto could pull his bushy mustache and reflect on the dual perils which have beset his administration from its start. To the left of him was the danger that the Popular Front would disintegrate; to the right, the danger of another Sept. 5. Don Tinto's recent veto of two bills passed by Congress brought both perils upon him last week...
...model Caja is run by young Dr. Raul Morales, who also visited the U.S. last month. In this group are 100,000 white-collar workers of banks, shops, etc. They are treated by a staff of 300 doctors, who are paid about 20 pesos an hour (80?) for their work. Dr. Morales, a syphilologist, is most concerned with preventive medicine. Every member is X-rayed once a year, given a tuberculin test, a complete clinical examination, a Wassermann and Kahn test for syphilis. Whenever a member is found to have tuberculosis, syphilis, rheumatism or heart disease, he is immediately given...
...hospitals, with the exception of a few small clinics, are under Government control. Cajas pay hospital bills for their members, although some operate their own sanatoriums. Every town has a hospital. Of Chile's 3,000 doctors, less than 600 practice private medicine exclusively. All the others are in some way connected with the Caja, but are allowed to maintain small private practices among the well-to-do in their spare time...