Survey: health insurance premiums weigh heavily on Swiss households

Health insurance funds: premiums weigh ever more heavily, survey Keystone-SDA

Most Swiss are concerned about the increase in health insurance premiums according to a survey published by Tamedia newspapers. In addition, 68% of the respondents were in favour of the introduction of a single-payer health insurance.

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This proposal received a majority across all age groups, all political parties, genders and income classes. On the other hand, the idea of reducing the number of hospitals as cost-increasing factors did not appeal to the majority: only 36% answered “yes” or “rather yes” to a question on this subject.

In addition, 9% of respondents said they expect to have difficulty paying the increased premiums expected in the coming year. Five percent even responded that they do not know how they will do this.

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The survey was carried out by the Leewas research institute among some 24,500 people between September 25 and 28 in German-speaking Switzerland, French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino. The margin of error is +/- 1.9 percentage points.

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