Drei Schweizer Spitalchefs sprechen im Interview über das Schweizer Gesundheitssystem – ihre Aussagen zur finanziellen Situation ihrer Organisationen sind alarmierend. Sie sehen die Probleme vor allem im Verhalten der Patienten.

I’m happy to pay a high co-pay when I have access to a doctor. Preventative care pays off…

Funny, I’m trying to go as little to the doctor as possible. But I did have to go 4 times over the past year because people kept taking public transport sick to go to work sick and after bringing a Telmed sick certificate two times I started getting comments about why I’m sick again and why I’m sick for so long because everyone got sick so often. So I had to go to the doctor. Loved spending 1000.- out of pocket for those doctor’s visits just so I could get a sick certificates.

And I can guarantee you, most people keep putting going to the doctor off for way too long due to it costing so much money, and coming in later usually means it will cost more to remedy the issue.

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additional thoughts: if they talk about more patients, are they talking about more patients at their facilities or more patients overall? If overall, is it in line with overall population growth, does it take into account that we have a huge overhang in the baby boomer population who are now all at an age that requires more healthcare? If only at their facility, does it take all the local hospital closures into account and that many local general practitioners can’t find a replacement, which means patients need to turn to larger regional or over-regional facilities to get healthcare?