• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    2 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.

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      2 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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        2 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