Fourteen thousand " panel" doctors serving 15,000,000 people under the British national health insurance scheme voted to strike Jan. 1 if a cut in their stipend proposed by the Government is ordered. Under the National Insurance Act adopted when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1911, five parties are concerned—insured workingmen, employers, insurance societies, doctors, the Government.
When employed, workmen contribute five pence a week to the National Health Fund, women four pence. Employers duplicate these amounts. The workmen must join an "approved society"—fraternal or commercial insurance organizations....
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