Maximum 10 per cent – Basel caps health insurance premiums – cantons could follow suit

by BezugssystemCH1903

3 comments
  1. Vaud had been doing that for years and now 37% of the population get some kind of help. It’s almost a Cantonal insurance at this point…

  2. In Ticino, we are voting on this in September. I really hope that we vote yes, as we already did in last year’s referendum with 57.6%. Some of the lowest salaries and highest premiums, it’s completely unsustainable!

  3. It is going to get worse, as the average age of the population rises – more older people needing care (post-war cohort going into their 80s and 90s), fewer young people to pay for them.

    I think this is another 13th AHV payment in disguise.

    If this 10% rule is passed, I think the biggest beneficiaries will be the older population living on modest pensions with their higher healthcare costs. My husband and I plus toddler pay around 4% of our wage on healthcare, but my mother in law pays closer to 20%…

    What is to stop retirees from taking all their 2nd/3rd pillar as cash to minimise their annual income to claim the subsidy?

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