Constitutional article "for quality and economy in health insurance"
The constitutional article "For quality and efficiency in health insurance" is a counter-draft to the withdrawn Swiss popular initiative "For lower health insurance premiums in basic insurance". It was launched by the Swiss People's Party and is occasionally called the premium reduction initiative .
On January 16, 2003, the SVP launched the federal popular initiative “for lower health insurance premiums in basic insurance”, which was previously signed by 101,226 Swiss voters based on the right of initiative under Article 139 paragraph 3 of the Federal Constitution . Its aim was to reduce health insurance premiums, which should have been achieved, among other things, by reducing the catalog of benefits.
After Parliament had spoken out against the initiative because, among other things, the text of the initiative had not stated which services would be affected, a counter-draft was drawn up. The initiative committee, consisting of 25 members, had withdrawn the initiative with 18 to 7.
The constitutional article was put to the vote on June 1, 2008 and was rejected.
text
The Federal Constitution of April 18, 1999 is amended as follows:
Art. 117a Health Insurance (new)
- Health insurance is based on:
- basic insurance according to social security law, which bears the costs for medical and nursing services that are useful for pain relief, healing and reintegration, are appropriate and economical, and whose effectiveness is recognized by science;
- supplementary insurance under private insurance law.
- Basic insurers and service providers conclude service contracts that meet the needs of the insured.
- Basic insurers may not be involved in service providers and service providers may not be involved in basic insurers.
- The basic insurance is financed by contributions from the federal government and the cantons of a maximum of 50 percent together as well as contributions from the insured.
- The federal government and the cantons make their contributions to the basic insurers.
The transitional provisions of the Federal Constitution are changed as follows:
Art. 197 no. 2 (new)
- Transitional
provision to Art. 117a (health insurance) The provisions of the new Article 117a come into force 3 years after their acceptance by the people and the cantons. The Federal Council issues the necessary enforcement provisions by ordinance until they are replaced by legislation. Until the point in time when Article 117a comes into force, the insured persons can insure the difference to the previous scope of benefits with their basic insurer under the supplementary insurance without reservation.
Result
Preliminary official final result:
| Canton | Yes (%) | No (%) | Participation |
|---|---|---|---|
 Aargau
|
58,654 (39.8%) | 88,547 (60.2%) | 40.1% |
 Appenzell Ausserrhoden
|
5,434 (34.5%) | 10,330 (65.5%) | 43.7% |
 Appenzell Innerrhoden
|
1,148 (31.5%) | 2,502 (68.5%) | 34.7% |
 Basel-Country
|
22,747 (29.1%) | 55,359 (70.9%) | 43.8% |
 Basel city
|
17,078 (29.6%) | 40,591 (70.4%) | 52.4% |
 Bern
|
91,636 (32.3%) | 191,722 (67.7%) | 41.3% |
 Freiburg
|
17,522 (24.1%) | 55,230 (75.9%) | 42.5% |
 Geneva
|
13,183 (10.9%) | 107,520 (89.1%) | 52.6% |
 Glarus
|
2,397 (25.9%) | 6,854 (74.1%) | 37.0% |
 Grisons
|
16,651 (34.2%) | 32,086 (65.8%) | 38.3% |
 law
|
2,453 (12.6%) | 16,969 (87.4%) | 40.0% |
 Lucerne
|
43,788 (39.5%) | 67,053 (60.5%) | 46.9% |
 Neuchâtel
|
8,819 (17.3%) | 42,209 (82.7%) | 48.3% |
 Nidwalden
|
5,727 (44.6%) | 7,123 (55.4%) | 46.1% |
 Obwalden
|
4,136 (38.1%) | 6,718 (61.9%) | 48.5% |
 Schaffhausen
|
7,808 (27.5%) | 20,548 (72.5%) | 63.1% |
 Schwyz
|
18,478 (43.1%) | 24,352 (56.9%) | 47.6% |
 Solothurn
|
25,655 (34.6%) | 48,420 (65.4%) | 44.9% |
 St. Gallen
|
48,834 (42.0%) | 67,439 (58.0%) | 40.3% |
 Ticino
|
20,497 (20.3%) | 80,295 (79.7%) | 50.0% |
 Thurgau
|
21,193 (38.4%) | 33,953 (61.6%) | 37.5% |
 Uri
|
2,929 (32.9%) | 5,977 (67.1%) | 36.8% |
 Vaud
|
21,557 (10.9%) | 177,049 (89.1%) | 51.1% |
 Valais
|
17,164 (18.9%) | 73,428 (81.1%) | 47.2% |
 train
|
13,061 (39.2%) | 20,233 (60.8%) | 48.9% |
 Zurich
|
152,714 (40.6%) | 223,171 (59.4%) | 47.0% |
 Swiss Confederation
|
661,263 (30.5%) | 1,505,678 (69.5%) | 43.7% |
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- ↑ svp.ch: SVP launches premium reduction initiative ( memento of the original from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 28, 2008)
- ↑ admin.ch: Withdrawal of the initiative (accessed on May 28, 2008; PDF file; 453 kB)
- ↑ admin.ch: Wording of the initiative ( memento of the original from June 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 24, 2008)
- ↑ Template No. 534, preliminary official final results - Swiss Federal Chancellery, June 1, 2008
