Switzerland's Healthcare Explained!

I feel like the Swiss model would be the easiest for the US to switch to.

it might be because I'm Swiss but if America wants to keep private healthcare, this would be the way to go.

From Switzerland: In Switzerland a construction worker or a teacher has a wage of 6 000 $ a month. A house cleaner gets at least 30$ per hour. If you consider our high wages it's not as expensive as you might think.

This is the #1 country I would want to live

we're not a parliamentary republic. we are a confederation and a semi-direct democracy ;)

I'm Swiss but I've been living abroad for a year now, and this made me so nostalgic I almost cried. Seriously. I didn't know half of this stuff though, so nice to know :) I MISS MY COUNTRY !

I always hear interesting things about the swiss. Things like their gun laws are quite liberal (by this I mean free), with high ownership rates, but contrasted with conscription into local militias. Then there is the strange local govt. which seems to emphasize direct democracy. There is also that proposal of providing citizens with a basic income. This all seems strange, and wonderful to a person living in Canada. I've been to switzerland a few times and christ the attitude, infrastructure, and areas are just amazing as well. 

i'm swiss and i'd like to congratulate you guys on this video. i've liked all your videos, but this time, i can actually judge the fairness and accuracy of what you are saying. excellent job! i have two additions: first, there's always a huge political debate about the swiss health system. for example, in my canton i helped fight for higher help by the canton for the people with less income to buy the obligatory health insurance. second, there will be a national vote that could change the system drastically: a people's initiative proposes that basic health insurance (SHI) would no longer be covered by private insurance companies, but by one company run by government. it's pretty certain that the people's initiative will not reach a majority in the vote.

I really appreciate that you go to the trouble of covering the whole world in your videos. Most youtube channels (big, or even semi-popular) come out of the states, and are very focused on them, leaving the rest of us excluded, and the whole of us uninformed. Thank you for including the whole world, and educating the whole world.

Do Finland sometime. Their government relationship with health and business and education is fascinating.

I have not read the comments below, however, as I Swiss I might want to add/clarify some points made in this great clip: There ARE taxbreaks for health insurance costs. Depending on the Kanton you live in, you might be able to deduct half of your health insurance costs from taxes. If you happen to have had to pay lots of health related costs by yourself, you can deduct part of this, too. There is indeed some inequality between health insurance providers concerning age and illness related structure of their customers. However, this is looked at and insurances with a great deal of healthy young customers need to pay a certain amount in a pot, where insurances with lots of old/ill people get money from.. Premiums are completely on the individual, but, as was pointed out in the clip, roughly a fourth of all citizens get a premium reduction due to lower income. It is true that there is no special program for the elderly concerning premiums, however, every person over the age of 65 whose money situation is below a certain level is eligible for "Ergaenzungsleistungen" - additional money paid by the community, which also covers the health insurance costs.

I thank you so much for this series. I still return it even though it has been many years since you published it.

Do either an Asian Country Health Care System (China, Japan, Vietnam, etc) or an Eastern Country (Iran, Iraq, Israel, etc) these would be very interesting

Really like that system because you have a must-have affordable basis that covers all essentials and if you need more, you just add it on your own coast.

Thanks for posting this, super handy for me to show people who ask me how the healthcare system here works. One correction, though: Health insurance premiums ARE tax-deductible. Even the simplified tax forms (think Swiss equivalent of 1040-EZ) have a box for your annual premium.

Hope New Zealand gets a study also. This series of health care systems are helpful, especially to those deciding to migrate to a different country.

Do Norway next! It seems like plenty of countries has a "privatized" universal health care system, but here in Norway, we only pay when we need care up to a maximum of 1880NOK a year (300$). No insurance paid what so ever. Healthcare is covered by taxes. Dental care is not covered tho, but all sorts of stuff for the disabled (wheelchairs, hearing aids, transport to and from the hospital, even a customized car for the multihandicapped if you cannot use a regular one!) is covered.

I love this series, but what would be really super special awesome if you provided the episode script, or some kind of written source to refer back to, so that I don't need to watch the whole video just to find the part about why doctors don't like the Swiss system.  As for my suggestions for future entries in the series, I'd like to see some more Asian and 2nd world countries, i.e. Russia, China, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Vietnam, S. Korea, etc. Keep up the good work!

@realjohngreen! THE REAL JOHN GREEN! Yes, it makes so much sense that you're around for this.

You guys are awesome! Great breakdown of essential statistics and relevant information for evaluating healthcare systems. Thank you! We watch your videos as part of out Global Health Systems Course.