10,000 francs: Health insurer wants high deductible for rich people

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“I think that someone with an income of 500,000 or even a million francs would have no problem with a deductible of 10,000 francs,” Harnischberg said in an interview with “Le Temps” published on Friday. Such a measure would reduce premiums and burden insured people with high wages more heavily, according to the head of the Bern health insurer, who himself earns 520,000 francs a year.

In addition, the number of health insurers in Switzerland must be reduced, Harnischberg said. Today there are about fifty. “That’s too much,” he says. “Eight to ten cash registers would be enough for Switzerland.”

One fund? “Monopolies are never good”

However, there is no question of a unified fund, as the left demands: “Monopolies are never good. It is populism to believe that such a fund would reduce healthcare costs,” Harnischberg said.

According to the KPT boss, there are also too many hospitals: “We have almost 300 acute hospitals. It is absurd that in some cantons there are more hospitals than in a country like Denmark with six million inhabitants, which has no more than twenty.” (SDA)

Source:Blick