Health Insurance: Address Delivered at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Washington, D. C., May, 1916 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Health Insurance: Address Delivered at the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Washington, D. C., May, 1916

The bill that we have worked out, as Professor Seager has concisely stated, contemplates compulsory health insurance and justifies that pro posal on the ground that experience everywhere has shown that voluntary insurance will not reach the classes which need it most. The system must be made obligatory if it is going to render the large social service of which it is capable.

The obligation to insure imposed by the bill is to apply to all manual workers and to all non-manual workers, clerks, foremen, etc., whose earnings are less than $1200 a year. Even home workers are to be included as far as this is administratively possible - the details to be worked out by the commission to be created.

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