Abstract
A Responsibility of the State?: Social Security, the German Occupation and the Introduction of Compulsory Social Health Insurance in the Netherlands, 1939-1949 In historiography the Sickness Funds Decree (1941) has always been portrayed aseither being a Dutch or a German product. The author argues it was both. The German occupier was able to break through the political stalemate that had delayed the introduction of social health insurance during the previous decades. However the German authorities could not completely bypass Dutch ideas. The initial farreaching proposal was blocked by combined resistance from Dutch civil servants and ‘Berlin’. After the war, the restored Dutch government proposed a Beveridgemodelof social security, with the state at the centre of power. This proposal was rejected since the general feeling was against the state controlling health insurance. The Sickness Funds Decree seemed to be better suited to this mood. By establishingthe Sickness Fund Council the power over social health insurance shifted from the state to the civil society.
Highlights
A Responsibility of the State?: Social Security, the German Occupation and the Introduction of Compulsory Social Health Insurance in the Netherlands, 1939-1949 In historiography the Sickness Funds Decree (1941) has always been portrayed as either being a Dutch or a German product
De Duitse bezetting en de invoering van de verplichte ziekenfondsverzekering in Nederland, 1939-19491
The German occupier was able to break through the political stalemate that had delayed the introduction of social health insurance during the previous decades
Summary
De Duitse bezetting en de invoering van de verplichte ziekenfondsverzekering in Nederland, 1939-19491. A Responsibility of the State?: Social Security, the German Occupation and the Introduction of Compulsory Social Health Insurance in the Netherlands, 1939-1949 In historiography the Sickness Funds Decree (1941) has always been portrayed as either being a Dutch or a German product. Als er geen sprake was van voortzetting van het vooroorlogse Nederlandse beleid, waarom getroostte de Duitse bezetter zich dan de moeite een sociale ziektekostenverzekering in te voeren? De nationaalsocialistische bezettingsmaatregel paste met enige aanpassing naadloos in de sociale politiek van de rooms-rode coalitie
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