Young Man's Benefit

Young Man's Benefit
Author: George Neil Emery
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780773518247

In the past a family's chief cost of sickness was loss of the family head's earning, not expenses for health care. Since there were no government programs, sickness insurance provided by friendly societies, commercial insurers, and other institutions was important in partially replacing the wage earner's lost income. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) was the largest social society in Canada and the United States and also the largest provider of sickness insurance.