Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1911 — Sickness Insurance. [ARTICLE]

Sickness Insurance.

Lloyd George, British chancellor of the exchequer, has published the provisional draft of a scheme which he hopes will be passed by parliament, the fundamental provision of which is compulsory insurance against serious sickness and incapacity for wprk for the whole laboring population of the United Kingdom, whose wages are below the sum of about 8800. The age limits are 16 and 70 years, the latter being the age at which oldage pensions begin. The minimum allowance will be $1.20 a week. The cost will be divided, the Insured paying one-half and the employer and the state one-fourth each. It is proposed to establish a central administrative council, made up of representatives of the government, the friendly societies* and employers of labor, to decide all controversies arising in the working out of the gists.