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Sickness is a serious social danger that impacts the livelihoods of individuals, including with the ability to earn an income as well as depriving families of stable lives and causing pain in the body. To prevent this, the ILO provided specific criteria for the sickness benefit system in the conventions and recommendation. Most OECD countries have adopted the sickness benefit schemes, but our society is not yet introducing it. As a model, the main contents of the sickness benefit system in France and Sweden are as follows. In France, health insurance is responsible for sickness benefits. As a qualification, it confirms the contributions to health insurance along with the length of employment. It has special exceptions for long-term illnesses and admits overlapping benefits with other social security benefits. Furthermore, the company dispends the employee supplementary benefits to take care of income other than sickness benefits. In Sweden, the sickness benefit is paid according to the degree of loss of labor capacity and not unemployment. Parental-leave benefit is added to the sickness benefit for childcare. A dedicated manager exists to assist ill employees, and the company helps them quickly by giving them the sickness pay which saves on finances prior to the social insurance’s sickness benefit. In comparison, the legislation bills proposed in the past have been to establish a paid sick leave in the Labor Standards Act or to create ickness benefit in the employment insurance. However, the former has the disadvantage that it does not cope with long-term disease; the latter does not include the self-employed. Therefore, this paper proposes health insurance as the sickness benefit system to cover all people and suggests that anyone who contributes to health insurance is paid by the sickness benefit not according to the length of employment such as the employment insurance. The benefits duration is 6 months and can be received up to 1 year. Benefits are 50% of ordinary wages, but increase with the number of dependents.