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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Switzerland, patients pay up to 8% of their personal income towards the cost of a basic insurance plan. If their premiums work out to more than 8% of their income, the government provides a cash subsidy to cover the difference.

https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/switzerland.php

My point in this whole thing is that everyone in Switzerland has healthcare and that healthcare is subsidized to be more affordable than in the US. That would be a left wing program here.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No. Not everyone have it. And this is not true. Health insurance can cost over 20%.

I am not insured because I cannot afford it. Which means I am technically breaking the law.

Only left wing states like geneva, which also has that minimum wage, offer those generous subsidies.

I would not trust a website made for rich expats.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

All of that is irrelevant to my point that your right wing government has policies that would be far left in the US