Swiss Health Care

The Swiss health care system is a step in the right direction, which the Obama administration and politicians on the Left could learn from. And the American public can use to repair our newly imposed health insurance coverage.

It’s more efficient and will eventually cost less than what we have.

Under the Swiss plan, everyone is covered by private insurance. There is no government-managed or employer-provided coverage. The poor are helped to buy the insurance they cannot afford.

Employees under a U.S. comparable plan could receive in cash, tax free, what their employers currently spend on premiums, provided they used the money for insurance on health care. The poor, including past Medicaid recipients, would get government funds to buy insurance. There would be no discrimination against anyone on account of existing or past illness.

The plan would not socialize medicine as ours’ will eventually do. True interstate competition among insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors, would bring costs down over time.

Patients could really choose the best and lowest cost providers on the basis of published outcomes. Insurance companies and providers would bid for clients and customers, as to needs and cost.

The government's role would merely be to oversee transparency, The government would create an information system, with regard to insurance companies and providers.