• Movement in the United the rapid extension of workmen's compensa tion for industrial accidents in 34 States in the brief period of 1911 to 1916, and also for in dustrial diseases in a few States, an object les son in social insurance methods has been given, which quickly developed into a demand for the extension of the same principles and methods to health insurance. In the fall of 1915 the American Association for Labor Legislation issued a tentative draft of a com pulsory health insurance act, which was intro duced in the spring of 1916 in the legislatures of Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York. These bills failed of passing but led to the appointment of an investigating commission in Massachusetts and a similar commission ap pointed in 1915 in California had specialized in health insurance. The American Medical As sociation, the American Public Health Associa tion, the National Conference of Charities and Correction and many similar organizations, as well as State federations of labor, and national or international labor unions have either formally endorsed or shown an earnest inter est in health insurance. The United States
Commission on Industrial Relations made a report in favor of it, and the United States Public Health Service and the United States Department of Labor have come out in sup port of it. The public hearings held in Albany in March 1916, in Boston in March 1916 and again in October 1916 and in San Francisco in November 1916, have demonstrated a very live interest in, and growing support of, the social health insurance movement. There is little doubt that the United States stand ready to enter upon a policy of health insurance more or less following various European standards.
Rubinow, I. M.,