Word: paid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paid much attention to Boyd's unhappy situation. But last week everyone sat up. Without warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
...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...
...Darwen, Lancashire, expressed the verdict of millions. "It's not so much what the plan saved me in money," she said, "because if I'd had to pay, I wouldn't have had us all done. I couldn't have afforded it. If we had paid, it would have cost us nearly ?16. Me and the children have all been examined, and the doctor's given me vitamin pills, and ordered two of the children to have specs, and sent another to have exercises for her spine, and I wouldn't have known there...
Most of the country's 2,800 doctors are in the plan. A bit more than half the premiums is paid by employees, the remainder by employers and government. Denmark, beginning with health co-operatives in 1891, has had a compulsory system since 1933. Of Denmark's 4,000,000 people, all those over 15 years of age must now register with recognized health insurance cooperatives and contribute premiums equaling up to $10 yearly. But benefits depend on individual income. Those who have more than $1,700 a year after taxes are not eligible for free medical treatment...
...employers and employees, amount to 3% of white collar, and 5% of manual worker salaries. The insurance organization has a salaried staff of 600 doctors who serve members, but the main medical burden is borne by 15,000 of the country's independent practitioners. Their bills are paid half by the insurance, half by the insured...