Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1916 — BEING. WELL IS AN ASSET [ARTICLE]

BEING. WELL IS AN ASSET

Physical Health Is Beginning to Be Recognized at Its Real Value to the Community. “Health insurance legislation will be introduced here very shortly If America as a progressive democracy is going to compete successfully in the world’s markets and at the same time conserve the stamina of her workers.” This opinion was expressed by Felix M. Warburg of the banking house of Kuhn, Loeb and company, brother of Paul M. Warburg of the federal reserve board. He was referring especially to the health insurance bill brought out by the American association for labor legislation this year. Mr. Warburg explains his interest in health insurance by Ills first-hand acquaintance with its working in Germany. “I lived in Germany at the time the law for health insurance was passed and put into operation and the effect from what I have been told has been excellent,” he said. “It is only by means of a system of universal health insurance that the service of advanced medical science can be brought to the cure of the workers as a whole, while at the same time 'the payment of joint contributions brings economic pressure to bear on the state, the employers and the worker himself “to prevent disease-. In other words, under health Insurance all parties concerned are made to feel the cash value of good health.”