Show HEALTH INSURANCE ON WAY WAS Many Reasons for Assuming That the Nation Is About Ready to Take Important Step It is only fair to assume that our country Is steadily moving In the dl dl- di direction of compulsory sickness or health Insurance The reasons for tor this assumption are many but among the most Important are the following 1 The force of the example of England England Eng Eng- land and of or eight other European countries countries coun coun- tries with whose social Insurance laws the people of at this country are rapidly becoming g fl familiar 2 the general faor favor favor fa fa- fa- fa vor or with which the proposed legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion Is regarded by the extremely active active ac ac- ac tive Uve and influential body of at social workers in the tile United States 3 the appointment of no less than eight ht commissions to investigate health and other forms Corms of social Insurance 4 the support of the tile movement by numerous public health administrators and experts 5 the gradual but Irresistible Irresistible Irre Irre- swing of organized labor from opposition n to support 6 G the present sympathetic attitude of the leading political political political po po- po- po parties toward the demands of ot labor 7 the willingness of labor officially of of- expressed through state labor federations to assume half the cost of the proposed Insurance and 8 the readiness of ot various state legislatures to act upon social reform measures which do not threaten to add to the troubles of the overburdened taxpayer and Incidentally to those of the legis legis- lator Ill tor These reasons declares Modern Hospital Hos Hos- Hospital os pital In an editorial on the subject are ure clearly Indicative of the fact tact that the trend of the country's thought Is Inthe in inthe inthe the direction of health Insurance |