Swiss reject switch from private to state health insurance

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Yahoo News:

Geneva (AFP) - Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a plan for a seismic shift from the country's all-private health insurance system to a state-run scheme.

 

Referendum results showed that almost 62 percent of voters had shot down a reform pushed by left-leaning parties which say the current private system is busting the budgets of ordinary residents.

 

The results also underlined the national divisions over the hotly-contested issue as the country's German-speaking regions voted against the plan, while their French-speaking counterparts were in favour.

 

Switzerland's private insurance lobby hailed the vote.

 

"The Swiss population does not want a single national scheme," said the Swiss Insurance Association.

 

"Our health system is among the top performers in the world. Competition between health insurers and freedom of choice for clients play a major role in this," it added.

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I knew the Swiss had some sense.