While I was an active SO member in the mid-to-late-70's, I was posted in outer non-SO CLIV orgs and only experienced actual SO org life when hauled down there for training or ethics cycles lasting from days to weeks. There was NO insurance coverage for any staff. Remember, especially for dedicated staff members, most were heavily indoctrinated into the "you are a thetan, not a body" so I think the prevalent attitude was considering the body more of a hindrance, something we had to put up with as an inconvenience of the physical universe until we could go full OT and operate without need of a body; until such time the body was absolutely necessary in order to "hold the cans" so we could get the needed processing to OT. Been a long time, but the only time I ever recall hubbard mentioning insurance was in a derogatory manner, more or less as a con game operating on "raw meat" who didn't know they were thetans and who were buying insurance because they were basically "PTS to the middle class" and such. That's the impression I had of his viewpoint on insurance anyways. Don't waste money on insurance (a PTS postulate that your measly body would get sick or die); the only real solution was to get trained and audited!
When I was pulled down to the LA area SO orgs for handling, the quality of food could vary immensely from org to org and depending on the weekly stat of GI for the given org. If the GI was good, very good, or highest ever or whatever then the chow could be really, really good. If the org GI was down or they were struggling to meet bills over a given time period, then chow could be pretty gross, powdered milk, rice-and-beans, powdered eggs, etc. At the time, I think it was mainly the RPFs, or possibly the RPF's RPFs, that were fed steadily on rice-and-beans and that may have only been during the later years. My ex was on both and I think she ate basically what the org's crew ate except they were leftovers. I was never on an RPF so can't say for sure on that one.
I think the LA SO orgs back then had a staff section that more or less provided simple things such as vitamins IF (and a big IF) stats were such that they were allocated any money for any given week. I don't think there was anything stable about it, though, and was highly variable from org-to-org and time-to-time. Definitely no sanctioned meds. If the condition warranted it, a staff member might be sent to a $cn doctor and the immediate expenses covered by the Staff Section's MLO ("Medical Liaison Officer). I think, though, that in a lot of cases the staff member just had to "make it go right" and cover his own expenses for vitamins or the occasional medical expense for things such as broken bones, burns, cuts, whatever. Of course, the PRIMARY emphasis would be on getting processing and/or ethics handlings (for PTSness or other "out" ethics conditions). And arranging for staff processing could be pretty haphazard at best.
Blech. Enough with traipsing though the memory graveyard on this one for me. :wink2:
Oh yeah, seems I recall reading something long, long ago about the choice of Thursday for ending the week but, sorry, I've forgotten what his (hubbard's) reasoning was.
This thread is cathartic for me... 
