• FundMECFSResearchOP
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    3 months ago

    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.

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      3 months ago

      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.

      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.

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        3 months ago

        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.

        • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          All of that is irrelevant to my point that your right wing government has policies that would be far left in the US