A third of Swiss residents plan to change health insurers

Health insurance funds: one-third of people plan to change Keystone-SDA

After the announced sharp increase in premiums for 2025, about one in three people would be considering switching health insurers.

This is according to a survey by the consulting firm Deloitte, which also shows that more and more people see a single health insurer as a solution to combat rising costs in the industry.

In detail, 51% of those insured with a maximum deductible of CHF2,500 are willing to switch, according to the survey. One in five would also be considering changing their insurance model or deductible.

Also according to the survey, 70% would favour a change in the system, particularly a shift towards a single health insurance fund. At the same time, 75% of respondents said they were satisfied or very satisfied with their health insurance.

With a single health insurance fund, respondents would hope for lower premiums. However, these are exaggerated expectations, according to the authors, since insurers’ administrative costs amount to an average of five percent of premiums.

Adapted from Italian by DeepL/ac

How we work

This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles.

If you want to know more about how we work, have a look here, if you want to learn more about how we use technology, click here, and if you have feedback on this news story please write to [e-mail].