Swiss popular initiative for a single health insurer… once again!

Carlo De Pietro and Luca Crivelli

Health Policy, 2015, vol. 119, issue 7, 851-855

Abstract: The article describes a recent Swiss popular initiative, aiming to replace the current system of statutory health insurance run by 61 competing private insurers with a new system run by a single public insurer. Despite the rejection of the initiative by 62% of voters in late September 2014, the campaign and ballot results are interesting because they show the importance of (effective) public communication in shaping the outcome of a popular ballot. The relevance of the Swiss case goes beyond the peculiarities of its federalism and direct democracy and might be useful for other countries debating the pros and cons of national unitary health insurance systems versus models using multiple insurers.

Keywords: Health care financing; Regulation; Direct democracy; Health insurance competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.05.004

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