Czechoslovak national insurance : a contribution to the pattern of social security the Czechoslovak National insurance act.

  • Czechoslovakia.
Date:
[1948]
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    insured person derives from work carried out under con- tract. In the case of self-employed persons, the basis of assessment is considered the rate of pay of a worker of such qualifications that he could replace the employer in directing the undertaking, plus one fourth. This sum must not, how- ever, be less than the pay of the'best-paid employee in the undertaking, again plus one-fourth. The Ministry of Social Welfare can, in certain cases, determine a fixed sum to be taken as the average income for insurance purposes. In the case of farmers in particular this imaginary income is deter- mined by the Ministry in each individual case, in accordance with the position and size of the holding, the crop region, the guality of the soil, and the manner of cultivation. The basis of assessment in the case of members of an employer's family working in his undertaking—a person in family em- ployment’—is the wage which would be payable to the worker who is replaced by a member of the employer's family. This rate must, however, in no case exceed the imaginary insur- able income of the employer. ‘The maximum basis of assess- ment is Kčs 2,400.— per week, 1. e. about three times the average employed person’s weekly income. B) Sickness Insurance Benefit Sickness insurance has so far suffered from organisational disunity. There were different insurance schemes for dif- ferent groups of employees (workers, miners, private salaried employees and civil servants) and different descriptions and rates of benefit for each group. These distinctions can no longer be made in national insurance, for the asset which it is the function of insurance to safeguard—health—is equally precious for each citizen, and equally valuable for the nation and the national economy in the case of every worker. National insurance first of all guarantees to the insured person and his dependants medical treatment in all cases of illness, both at home, at the surgery and out-patients’ departments (extra-institutional treatment), and in hospital (institutional treatment). This latter includes treatment in all public hospitals and other public institutions of treatment, and, where necessary, also in resorts. sanatoria and convales-