Maillard wants to launch a new initiative for a single health insurance fund
Published: Thursday, Oct 31st 2024, 17:00
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On Thursday in Lausanne, Pierre-Yves Maillard, member of the Vaudois Council of States and trade union leader, confirmed his intention to launch a new popular initiative for the introduction of a single public health insurance scheme. Speaking at the Forum of 100, he said he hoped to be able to present a text next fall.
"I believe that this will be my last task on this topic with an ultimate popular initiative. That motivates me a lot," said Maillard in front of around 1,000 participants at the Forum of 100, which is made up of important personalities from French-speaking Switzerland.
Referring to the failures of the single fund before the people in 2007 and 2014, the Vaud native said that the new initiative must be more comprehensible so that "people clearly understand the implications for them", as was the case when the vote on the 13th AHV pension was won.
The contours of this new initiative are "currently being discussed", continued the member of the Council of States and President of the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB). However, he had already indicated that, in his opinion, this public fund should not be national, but should be "based on cantonal systems".
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