Santésuisse calls for cost-cutting measures
Published: Thursday, Sep 26th 2024, 14:30
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The health insurance association Santésuisse is calling for cost-cutting measures. These are urgently needed to avoid further sharp increases in premiums, the industry association announced on Thursday.
"The premium increase of six percent is very painful for the insured, which is why it is very important to introduce cost-cutting measures immediately, such as reducing the prices of medicines and laboratory analyses and supra-regional hospital planning," said Verena Nold, Director of Santésuisse, when asked by the Keystone-SDA news agency.
Furthermore, the role of the cantons in the healthcare system should be disentangled, bureaucracy reduced and the expansion of the benefits catalog in basic insurance stopped, it said.
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