Industry and Labor
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Prepayment PlansIndustry and Labor SAGE Publications, Inc.1956DOI: 10.1177/107755875601300108 International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Unison "Longshoremen Choose Service Plans - 38 to I," Health and Welfare Newsletter 4:8 November, 1955 "For the year starting July 1, 1955, where Longshoremen & Warehousemen Union members had a choice, only 375 of 14,315 chose a cash indemnity health insurance plan in preference to a direct service health plan. Monthly payments under both types of Plans are $10.12. "Kaiser Foundation Health Plan provides the union members and their dependents service benefits in several California port areas and in the Portland-Vancouver (Washington) area. In Seattle, Bridge Clinic and Group Health Cooperative provide them service benefits. "Insufficient spread of risk due to the small number of people covered under the insurance plan has led to a bad claims experience for the insurance company. Insurance benefits were reduced to keep within the set monthly premium rate. Matson Assurance Co., San Francisco provides insurance benefits this year." united Mine Workers Warren F. Draper, M.D., "Problems in the Operation of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund," Industrial Medicine and Surgery 24:520 December, 1955 .... "Organized medicine and the Medical Service of the rund, working jointly,