Swiss reject public health insurance plan

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http://www.thelocal.ch/20140928/swiss-reject-public-health-insurance-plan

Final results showed that almost 62 percent of the electorate shot down a plan pushed by left-leaning parties.

Proponents of the proposed single public health insurance system claim the current system is busting the budgets of ordinary residents.

But going public would have been a seismic shift for a country whose health system is often hailed abroad as a model of efficiency, but is a growing source of frustration at home because of soaring costs.

"Over the past 20 years in Switzerland, health costs have grown 80 percent and insurance premiums 125 percent," ophthalmologist Michel Matter told AFP.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I'm surprised there are no comments. Were the left leaning parties not convincing, or did the....

opponents run a very good campaign? I thought this is what people, the world over, were clamoring for.

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[baldguy]

3. The Swiss poverty rate is 7.6%, with the poorest fifth getting 7.6% of income.

Compared to 15% and 5.4% for the US.

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4. This sounds pretty close to the US's private healthcare system's continual increases, but . . .

with the average take-home pay of the Swiss being $5200 it hasn't gotten to the point where it is unaffordable for most of the public.

Quite the opposite here though where the average take-home pay is nowhere near $5200.

Once the increases in Switzerland get to be unaffordable they'll move towards some sort of public healthcare system — maybe even a transitional step like we have with Obamacare.

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5. ACA was modeled on the Swiss system

It's a regulated private market with a purchase and issuance mandate.

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6. Guess that accounts for the huge increases in premium rates

Too bad our private system doesn't require coverage, and the increases are far from regulated.

BTW, ACA premiums are actually going down.