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Show HEALTH INSURANCE 0N WAY Many Reasons for Assuming That the Nation Is About Ready to Tako Important Step. It Is only fair (o assume that our country Is steadily moving In tho direction di-rection of compulsory sickness or henllh Insurance. The rensons for this iiMHUiiiptlou ure ninny, but among the most Important are the following: (1) The force of the exnmple of England Eng-land and of eight other European countries coun-tries with whose social Insurance laws p the people of this country nro rapidly tir becoming familiar; (2) the general fu- vor with which the proposed leglsln- , lion Is regarded by the extremely active ac-tive and Influential body of social 'workers In the United Slates; (3) the appointment of no les hnn eight commissions to Investigate health nnd other forms of social Insurance; (4) 'the support of the movement by numerous public health administrators and expert; (5) the gradual but Irre-slHtlble Irre-slHtlble swing of organized labor from opposition to support ; (0) tho present njinpnthctlc attitude of the leading political po-litical parties toward the demands of labor; (7) the willingness of labor, of-flclnlly of-flclnlly expressed through state labor I federations, to assume hnlf the cost .of' the proposed Insurance, nnd (8) the readiness of nrlous state legislature to net upon soclnl reform measures which do not threaten to add to the troubles of tho overburdened tnxpnjer and Incidentally to those of the legislator. legis-lator. These reasons, declares Modern Hos- . pltnl In nn editorial on the Rubject. , are clearly Indicative of tho fact that the trend of the country's thought Is In . the direction of health Insurance. I |