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Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni
A SCHEME OF SOCIAL IMPORTANCE
The protection of health does not concern only each individual, but it is a moral obligation of social importance. In fact physical welfare is indispensable to secure moral and economic welfare; unless health «is guarded, the general prosperity of an individual, of a family, of a whole nation is not safe.
Much public provision is made against the social evils of physical infirmity and many private schemes aid governments in their beneficent enterprise, but however numerous, sufficient forces can never be recruited in this uneven combat and new energies must be continually sought for.
It is with this aim that the ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLE ASSICURAZIONI, a pioneer of every movement that increases and protects social welfare, has recently devised a vast programme.
In putting into effect its programme the Institute has realized a noticeable advance in comparison with all -other similar movements in Europe. The sanitary organization of the Institute has been divided into two distinct sections; one, which may be called active, offers the insured many facilities for getting the right medical treatment, the other vigilantly supervises their health and guards them from possible dangers:
i) Every person insured for more than 20.000 liras is visited gratis, twice a year, by a doctor, whom the insured himself chooses from the list of the Fascist Medical Syndicate. The ^doctor is not obliged to report the issue of his visit to the Institute;
2) All those insured for more -than 50.000 liras may profit twice a year from an accurate urinary analysis and two blood tests.
Among the facilities for medical treatment are the following:
1) Reduced rates (50 %) for all those -insured, at the Thermal Springs of Acqui and of Salsomaggiore, at the latter there also is a reduction of 20 % at the Hotel Porro and the Hotel Valentini;
2) a 50 % reduction at the hot springs of Chianciano and a 20 % discount at the hotels: Savoia, Palace, Terme, Acqua Santa and Macerina;
3) a 50 % reduction for treatment at Acque Albule, Tivoli;
4) the same reduction at the thermal springs of Agnano, near^Naples;
5) all the dentists of the Fascist Medical Syndacate offer a 30 % discount to all insured persons.
The numerous facilities offered by the Institute clearly demonstrate the important role it plays in protecting public health and its sanitary vigilance constitutes a most important social function.