Findings from University of California in the Area of Health Insurance Described (What Can US Single-Payer Supporters Learn From the Swiss Rejection…

Findings from University of California in the Area of Health Insurance Described (What Can US Single-Payer Supporters Learn From the Swiss Rejection of Single Payer?)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Managed Care Weekly Digest -- Current study results on Health Insurance have been published. According to news reporting from San Francisco, California, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, "On September 27, 2014, Swiss voters rejected a proposal to replace their system of about 60 health insurance companies offering mandatory basic health coverage with a single public insurer, the state, which would offer taxpayer-funded coverage of all medically necessary care."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of California, "The Swiss and the U.S. media, academia, and business sectors, from conservative and liberal camps, interpreted the results to mean a rejection of single payer and a preference for a privately run system, with important implications for health reform in the United States. While on the surface mainstream interpretations appear reasonable, I argue that they have little basis on fact because they rely on assumptions that, while untrue, are repeated as mantras that conveniently justify the continuation of a model of health insurance that is unraveling, less conspicuously in Switzerland, dramatically in the United States."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "To make my case, I describe the dominant narrative about Swiss health care and mainstream interpretations of the latest referendum on health reform, unpack the problem within these interpretations, and conclude by identifying what lessons the Swiss referendum contains for single payer advocates in the United States in particular and for those who struggle for social and economic rights more generally."

For more information on this research see: What Can US Single-Payer Supporters Learn From the Swiss Rejection of Single Payer? International Journal of Health Services, 2016;46(2):331-45. International Journal of Health Services can be contacted at: Baywood Publ Co Inc, 26 Austin Ave, Amityville, NY 11701, USA (see also Health Insurance).

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting C. Chaufan, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Publisher contact information for the International Journal of Health Services is: Baywood Publ Co Inc, 26 Austin Ave, Amityville, NY 11701, USA.

Keywords for this news article include: California, San Francisco, United States, Health Insurance, North and Central America.

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