WTF!!!!!

[jassanja]

It's one thing to have health care
It's another thing if mandatory health care puts you in the poorhouse

Comments

[hatman]

Sorry if I'm being oblivious or obtuse, but... Details, please?

[jassanja]

In Switzerland it is obligatory to have health care - the only choice you have is choosing an agency for yourself.

Unfortunatly the monthly fees have been spiraling up like crazy every year.
My monthly fee (around 700$)for next year will coast more then the rent for my flat - and that is just for the most basic care plan in one of the cheapest agencies.

(Also what amounts to the first 600$ of coasts every year I will still have to pay formyself, and after that 10% of every bill

[hatman]

Ah, I see. That's... not good. And not encouraging, considering some of the proposals floating around here in the US. Of course, my current insurance is over $1k/month, and I'm lucky to have that (and to live in a state with some of the tightest restrictions on insurance companies in the country). I don't know. There's got to be a better way, somehow. Something that's affordable, but still gives fair pay to the doctors and researchers and all...

[jassanja]

I spent some time this summer in hospital, and I often had the impression that they did not even try to help me heal, that they just wanted me to stay there as long as possible to fill the bed, and charge my insurrance company

[hatman]

That's... exactly the opposite of what happens here. Hospitals are overcrowded, and private insurance reimbursements are too small. So the hospitals try to kick you out as soon as it's even remotely safe.

[barbara]

Was, rund $700 im Monat?! Was zum Geier ist denn das für eine Krankenkasse - bzw. da muss aber sicher noch mehr dabei sein als nur die Grundversicherung, oder? Sonst wäre das ja wirklich glatter Raub! Und wäre dann nicht wenigstens sowas wie Prämienverbilligung möglich?