Voluntary Insurance Against Sickness: 1950 Estimates
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In the pages that follow, the BULLETIN again presents an apincome-loss insurance), increases the raisal of theprotection against sickness costsprovided by voluntotal to about $5,265 million. An offset, tary insurance. It is apparent from the analysis that, though to take account of paid sick leave apthe voluntary programs have been growing, they still meet only plicable to 8.4 million persons,” rea relatively small part of these costs. duces the total to about $4,984 million.
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