The Administrative Expenditures for Social Insurance
According to the most recent statistics (1926), the krankenkassen of the guilds (innungen) show the highest administrative expenditures per member (6.90 marks) of all the krankenkassen authorized by federal enactment. The lowest expenditures per member (3.90 marks) were reported by the landkrankenkassen. The total administrative expenditures of all the federally authorized krankenkassen amounted, in 1926, to 91,900,000 marks (about $22,000,000), or 4.80 marks per member, which equaled 7.2 per cent of the total expenditures for all purposes. Of the 91,900,000 marks, 73,200,000 ($18,000,000) comes under the head of personal administrative expenditures. The administrative expenditures of the ersatzkassen amounted to 13,200,000 marks, or 11.69 marks per member, which is 11.8 per cent of the total expenditures for all purposes. In the "knappschaftliche kassen" (miners and the like) the administrative expenditures amounted to 5.30 marks per member.The administrative expenditures of the carriers of accident insurance