We may have “universal healthcare” in that everyone every legal resident following the law, the law saying you must purchase health insurance, is technically insured.
But we don’t have public insurance, it’s run by private companies at exorbitant prices with crazy premiums. And since we have such a large insurance /phara industry here, they are in the pockets of the government. Hell, the big insurance and big pharma companies even own shares in our national bank!
Geneva is basically the only canton of 26 to have minimum wage. I’m on 8k per year for example.
Anyways, this isn’t an “I have it worst olympics”. But Switzerland is far inferior to countries who genuinely have “universal healthcare” meaning everyone can have healthcare even if they have 0 money. Instead of having “universal healthcare” through a weird legal loophole that excludes poor people by criminalising them.
In Switzerland, patients pay up to 8% of their personal income towards the cost of a basic insurance plan. If their premiums work out to more than 8% of their income, the government provides a cash subsidy to cover the difference.
My point in this whole thing is that everyone in Switzerland has healthcare and that healthcare is subsidized to be more affordable than in the US. That would be a left wing program here.
We may have “universal healthcare” in that
everyoneevery legal resident following the law, the law saying you must purchase health insurance, is technically insured.But we don’t have public insurance, it’s run by private companies at exorbitant prices with crazy premiums. And since we have such a large insurance /phara industry here, they are in the pockets of the government. Hell, the big insurance and big pharma companies even own shares in our national bank!
As much as it sounds like you don’t like what you have, it’s still better than the US.
It’s like the US but if it was illegal to not have health insurance, so literally being poor is illegal.
When someone says “universal healthcare” it sounds a lot better than that.
Gross Geneva monthly minimum wage is CHF 4426 or $4,940 according to a quick Google. In the US it’s $1,330.
Edit. Even the highest US local minimum wage of $17 an hour is $2,992 a month.
Geneva is basically the only canton of 26 to have minimum wage. I’m on 8k per year for example.
Anyways, this isn’t an “I have it worst olympics”. But Switzerland is far inferior to countries who genuinely have “universal healthcare” meaning everyone can have healthcare even if they have 0 money. Instead of having “universal healthcare” through a weird legal loophole that excludes poor people by criminalising them.
https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/switzerland.php
My point in this whole thing is that everyone in Switzerland has healthcare and that healthcare is subsidized to be more affordable than in the US. That would be a left wing program here.
No. Not everyone have it. And this is not true. Health insurance can cost over 20%.
I am not insured because I cannot afford it. Which means I am technically breaking the law.
Only left wing states like geneva, which also has that minimum wage, offer those generous subsidies.
I would not trust a website made for rich expats.
All of that is irrelevant to my point that your right wing government has policies that would be far left in the US