The significant increase in health premiums for 2023 is “the culmination of an announced collective failure”, denounced the French-speaking Consumer Federation (FRC) on Tuesday. According to her, nothing has been done in favor of the insured.
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For the FRC, the responsibility of “all service providers” is engaged. “While the increases were moderate over the past four years, these players did everything to torpedo ambitious measures, mainly because they undermined their remuneration,” she wrote in a press release.
Various measures would have made it possible to stem the rise in costs, assures the FRC, citing actions on the price of drugs, a framework to prevent over-prescription, over-billing of medical acts or even the establishment of uniform funding for care. But they have either been abandoned or they are blocked in Parliament.
“Insured persons pay dearly for it, they who act as an adjustment variable”, affirms the national councilor Sophie Michaud Gigon (Greens / VD), secretary general of the FRC. “They are the main donors of the healthcare system through their bonuses and their direct contributions without any measure having been taken in their favor”, she adds.
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