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The present volume is an attempt to present a comprehensive survey of the system. The purpose of the volume is to describe the principal policy provisions, with special emphasis on their historical development, to indicate and assess the governmental subsidies involved in the program, to point out some of the persistent problems that have been encountered, and to evaluate the insurance as an instrument of social policy. Attention is drawn to those features of government life insurance which differentiate it from commercial insurance, and these features are evaluated from the standpoint of the insured. The primary emphasis is on the permanent forms of insurance, but the discussion embraces the temporary insurance at many points.
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