Combating the overuse of medical care, improving diet, creating a single health insurance scheme – Swiss citizens living abroad have come up with a wide range of ways to limit healthcare costs. But there’s one thing on which everyone agrees: the system needs to be reformed. Most Swiss people abroad don’t pay health insurance premiums in Switzerland. However, expats are aware of the problem caused by rising healthcare costs. Our readers have expressed their fears and raised potential solutions in the debate we launched on SWI swissinfo.ch. >> Join our debate on healthcare costs: A number of people support the creation of a single health insurance fund, an idea that was widely rejected in federal referendums in 2007 and 2014. “This fund would cover the costs of basic medical care. The Confederation and the cantons would be the majority shareholders and would define measurable success criteria,201D argues Nando, a Swiss in Italy. Nando says he is satisfied with the health system in ...
