Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service today there are about 10,000 voluntary administrative workers; Bevan's Health Ministry itself gets along with only 800 paid staffers...
...gets too heavily loaded. If their area is short of doctors, they have the right to keep a physician who wants to move away, from doing so. On the other hand, if their area is "overdoctored," they may refuse to let new doctors move in to practice under the health plan...
...excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...
Premiums are raised through a 6% payroll tax, shared equally by employees and employers. Austria, since 1888, has copied the German pattern. More than 6,500,000, or 90% of the population, are now health-insured. White-collar workers contribute 4.2%, and manual laborers 5 to 6.5% of their wages. Administration is in the hands of semiprivate companies supervised by the government. Sweden, since 1891, has promoted voluntary sickness and accident insurance. More than half the population, or 4,700,000, are covered. They pay varying premiums to government-approved societies. The government pays 55% of the societies' outlay...
Nearly all of Sweden's 3,359 doctors take part. A law already passed, but not effective until 1951, will make health insurance compulsory. Norway has had health insurance since 1909, compulsory for all earning less than 9,000 kroner ($1,800) yearly and voluntary for those earning more...