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>Very few people have private health care in Europe, at least in the UK In Europe at least in Switzerland quite many have private health care (the price differ
by nix23 6y ago
>Very few people have private health care in Europe, at least in the UK
In Europe at least in Switzerland quite many have private health care (the price difference is quite small because the obligatory insurance is tremendously high already), and if you think 'we' are rich..you are wrong.
- polotics 6y agoSwitzerland is a complete outlier in this respect, Zürich is much closer to Boston than to Paris.
- nix23 6y agoNo not really...that comparison is completely wrong.
- kgwgk 6y agoThe obligatory insurance is also private.
- nix23 6y agoFrom private company yes, but with private we mean the 'luxury' addon...the obligatory is regulated by the state, but administered by private company's.
- kgwgk 6y agoWho is “we”?
- nix23 6y agoWe the people.....of Switzerland
- kgwgk 6y agoI don't think I've ever heard anyone say "private insurance" to refer to the "supplementary insurance" (Zusatzversicherung / assurance complémentaire / assicurazione complementare), so if it's used in that sense it's not universal. Supplementary insurance is conceptually different, by definition, from comprehensive private health insurance which provides alternative coverage for what is already covered within the public healthcare system.
- nix23 6y agoPrivate Spitalversicherungen im Schweizer Vergleich: https://www.moneyland.ch/de/privat-versicherung-spital-vergleich https://www.moneyland.ch/de/privat-versicherung-spital-vergl... There is even a 'half-private' one
- kgwgk 6y agoWhat is private/semi-private in that phrase is the hospital room that the insurance covers, not the insurance itself.
- nix23 6y agoNot just the room, also better treatment more expensive medication etc That is whats called private, if you never heard the phrase private krankenkasse...well everyone uses it, it's also the first (maybe second) question when you go into any hospital.
- kgwgk 6y agoNot just the kind of hospital room, but I'd say it's the main difference (there are many different supplemental insurance products anyway). And I don't thing "semi-private insurance" is a thing anywhere else. Even if you're right and the term is used more generally than I thought, my main point stands: it's quite different from what people in other countries call "private health insurance" so in the context of the discussion here the distinction is relevant.
- flumpcakes 6y ago> and if you think 'we' are rich..you are wrong. Switzerland is one of the richest countries in Europe - it's GDP/capita is the 9th highest in the world. This place (news.ycom) really has a skewed sense of reality. "Oh, you only got $100k offer straight out of University? That's a low number." 99% of the world lives far below anything you consider average. For a website full of smart people, you all have trouble recognising your own extreme privledge.