High costs: healthcare and eating out
Voters clearly rejected initiatives to create a single health insurance scheme and a level VAT playing field for restaurants and takeaways in a nationwide ballot on September 28, 2014.
Latest news
Issue at stake: Single health insurance
Issue at stake: VAT on eating out
Additional content about the topic
Here is additional information about the topic
Key facts
Final results:
Single health insurance company:
38.2.% yes 61.8% no
Unified VAT rate in catering industry:
28.5% yes 71.5% no
Turnout: 46.7%
About 170,000 citizens, notably Swiss expats, were eligible to vote online. Nearly 26,000 of them – 15.2% - used the opportunity to take part in ongoing trials with e-voting, according to the Federal Chancellery.
An estimated 5.2 million Swiss citizens were eligible to take part in the nationwide vote - the third in a series of four ballots this year.
Up to 162,000 of them, mostly registered members of the Swiss expatriate community, were able to have a say online as part of an ongoing trial with e-voting.
Apart from the nationwide ballot, numerous votes on a variety of issues were scheduled in many cantons and at a local level on the same day.
