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The nuroose of social insurance institutions was to safeguard health, the most valuable
^he^thhi™uruwe'fuods were inslituuons for
^ ■ -1 ^ . ? Tnitiallv the aim pursued was to compensate members in cash
for w^gesy^sTtlrtfough sickness ; b«; ^kSnsuraoce^hld ffplied0Sy
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while in Poland, Roumania and Russia insurance was compulsory only for certain categories
°f ^ARer^iribinTI ^ “ndiuons - ^t^UnS wlrl^te'S Z
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benefits during and after confinement.
Health insurance societies had alway^^ afcS^y
equipped rural health services as on , ^ • free 0f charge either at the doctor’s
arranged for their members t° "where necessary, members could also have hospital
consulting room or in their own horn . i • orcier to restore their normal working
treatment and be admitted to convalesced ho^ figures were given
capacity. In the International La our f ^ds in Czechoslovakia which demonstrated
of the expenditure of rural health insurance tunas in , fits in kind nowadays. It
his point regarding the predominating pa P Y drew Kr in doctors’ fees,
appeared that, on an average, membe trri(ant ie 168 Kr in benefits in kind —
34 Kr. in medicine ^ 3 It" would be realised that'the extent and variety
as against actual cash benefits or no • - i- j u^tter orosnects of employment
","1 X,‘gVSr?™t,°l b,2f i—r's. t.g.Td. th. ptoportion c,

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