Brief for Health Insurance: Special Articles, Representative Comment, Select Bibliography |
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Page 266 - The members of the board and its assistants shall be entitled to receive from the state their actual and necessary expenses while traveling on the business of the board; but such expenses shall be sworn to by the person who incurred the same, and be approved by the chairman of the board, before payment is made.
Page 142 - Criticism of a tentative draft of an act for health insurance: submitted for criticism and discussion by the committee on social insurance of the American association for labor legislation.
Page 261 - Every person subject to insurance shall, by virtue of this chapter and without regard to his physical conditions, be an insured member of the trade fund of the trade at which and in the district in which he is employed, or if there be no such fund of...
Page 219 - Eighteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, 1903: Cost of Living and Retail Prices of Food contained an index of retail prices of food for 1890-1903 weighted by family consumption in 1901.
Page 266 - The power and jurisdiction of the commission over each case shall be continuing, and it may, from time to time, make such modification or change with respect to former findings or orders relating thereto, as in its opinion may be just.
Page 131 - ... 1915, thus increasing by one third the amount spent in sickness benefit. Its financial success, for which there were many fears before it came into operation in July of 1914, is revealed in the recent interim report of the departmental committee on approved society finance and administration. The committee states that during the first eighteen months the expenditure was within the actuarial expectation for that period, but that in the future it is possible that the disablement benefit for women,...
Page 222 - THE BUREAU OF SOCIAL RESEARCH OF THE NEW YORK SCHOOL OF PHILANTHROPY, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR. RC McCREA 159 On Trade Unions as Employment Agencies...
Page 232 - The strongest of incentives — that of lessening cost — is given to efforts to diminish frequency and seriousness of losses ; sickness insurance in this respect is a preventive measure of a positive and direct kind. The lower the morbidity and mortality rates, the less the amount necessary for benefits and the lower the insurance rate. c. Sickness insurance is no longer experimental, but is rapidly becoming universal.
Page 265 - Each member of the board shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office and shall not hold any position of trust or profit or engage in any occupation or business interfering or inconsistent with his duty as such member, or serve on or under any committee of any political party.
Page 261 - The commission shall provide by regulation for the case of persons regularly occupied at one trade but temporarily employed at another. Membership in...