[jeofken]

In CH I can go to a different doctor if I don’t like one. They run their own businesses. It’s their incentive to take me. It’s amazing!!! Totally normal to everyone from here.

I just go on OneDoc and select one according to my preferences. Unbelievable!! I use CSS in Wallis and I can email and call them and get a reply very fast. I have the direct phone number of my guy at the insurance office. Maybe a perk of village living. To them I’m a client rather than an annoyance, unlike with Försäkringskassan in SE. If I wasn’t satisfied, I could select another one. Not quite possible in a socialist health care system.

[nairboon]

Health care in CH is still public, even if most actors are private companies. The baseline cost are shared socially. That's why the premiums increase every year.

[rayiner]

It’s not any more public than in America. Individuals pay their own health insurance premiums. Individuals who don’t have enough money can receive a subsidy from the canton: https://www.ch.ch/en/health/health-insurance/health-insuranc.... That’s exactly how Obamacare works. The cap at which the subsidy kicks in is almost the same, too: 8% of income in CH, 8.5% under Obamacare.

And on top of that the US has a fully publicly funded system, Medicaid.