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Compulsory Health Insurance
1917
Journal of the American Medical Association
that the remedy for inadequate wages, insufficient to meet the expenses of illness, is higher wages. To this we should all subscribe. However, those of us who face the practical questions realize, just as the Massachusetts Commission on Social Insurance has pointed out, that there is no immediate prospect of a sufficient increase in wages to enable the American wage earner to bear the full cost of sickness. Even if a rise of wages should occur, the incidence of sickness is so uncertain that it
doi:10.1001/jama.1917.04270030326026
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