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Healthcare costs cause Swiss greatest concern (www.swissinfo.ch)

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Health and health insurance are the Swiss population’s biggest concerns, according to the Credit Suisse Worry Barometer. Environmental protection and pensions follow, while the war in Ukraine is no longer one of the main concerns.

In 2023 the research institute gfs.bern was again commissioned by Credit Suisse to survey the Swiss population on their concerns and identity characteristics. The main concerns were health issues and health insurance. Compared to the previous year, this topic has increased by 16 percentage points to 40%, according to a press release issued on Wednesday.

Environmental protection was thus replaced as the top concern of the previous year with 38%. In third place is the topic of old-age provision/retirement pensions with 32%. ...

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[–] albert180@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe the Swiss shouldn't have copied our dumb DRG System which leads to massive overtreatment and unnecessary surgeries, which the hospitals need to survive and often still barely manage to survive. It was the same in Germany, case numbers exploded, costs too.