TAILIEUCHUNG - HEALTH INSURANCE IN SWITZERLAND: A CLOSER LOOK AT A SYSTEM OFTEN OFFERED AS A MODEL FOR THE UNITED STATES

The kind of transfers granted depends on the severity of the frailty (care level) and the type of care arrangements chosen (by family members, care providers or in a nursing home). Persons requiring home care can thus either draw lump-sum transfers (Geldleistung), in-kind transfers (Sachleistung), or a combination of both. Only lump-sum transfers can be claimed for nursing home care. German legislation assigns priority to home care over nursing home care and the LTC insurance is expected to continue supporting patients being cared for at home for as long as possible. This means that the Medical Review Board must assess. | HEALTH INSURANCE IN SWITZERLAND A CLOSER LOOK AT A SYSTEM OFTEN OFFERED AS A MODEL FOR THE UNITED STATES Rachel Kreier Peter Zweifel I. INTRODUCTION A recent Google search on the words Switzerland health care system turned up three news reports in the first screen of results presenting Switzerland as a model for the United States. 1 The common thread in these works was the idea that the Swiss system which mandates that individuals choose their health care coverage from among the offerings of competing private not-for-profit insurers 2 might be more politically palatable in the United States than models with greater reliance on government-provided health insurance such as Canada s single-payer A front page New York Times article headlined Health Economist and Assistant Professor of Economics Hofstra University. . Cornell University . University of Florida . State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her research has focused on the impact of income and insurance coverage on disparities in quality of care and on the managed competition approach to providing health insurance coverage. Professor of Economics at the University of Zurich at the Socioeconomic Institute. Together with Friedrich Breyer and Matthias Kifmann he is the author of Health Economics Springer 2d ed. 2009 . His other texts available in German only include An Economic Model of Physician Behavior Insurance Economics International Economics and Energy Economics. His work has been published by the American Economic Review Antitrust Bulletin European Economic Review Health Economics Journal of Health Economics Journal of Risk Insurance Journal of Risk Uncertainty Public Choice among others. Together with Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania he is the founding editor of the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics Springer . From 1996 to 2005 he served as a member of the Competition Commission the Swiss antitrust authority. 1. Google http www. google. com .

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