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Excerpt from Poor Law Aspects of National Health Insurance
In 1908, as an urgent measure of reform a non-contributory old-age pension act was passed, which, it is true, did away with much of the obvious poor law support in old age, but made untold additional paupers by granting as a right what had previously been accepted as a charity in the strict sense of the term. All fundamental principles of voluntary thrift and voluntary efl'ort were violated in the passing of that act, and no legislation is likely to prove more disastrous in its ultimate effects upon national life and character except the national health insurance act of 1911. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
