Cost goals for healthcare: criticism of new regulation
Cost goals in the health sector? No thanks!
Switzerland will soon spend CHF 100 billion a year for health. Under the pressure of the cost brake initiative, the parliament decided on cost goals in the health sector. Their implementation is difficult – also because the Federal Council disregards the mandate of Parliament.
The population was too rigid to the population. Two out of three voters rejected the middle party’s initiative last summer. Their consequences were difficult to predict: the brake would have been activated if the costs in the health sector grow more than wages. However, the initiative left open what measures are used.
Parliament and the Federal Council fought a different path and worked out a counter-proposal to specify cost and quality goals in the health sector. But the implementation of these goals is difficult or impossible.
Criticism is hailed from all sides. This shows the past consultation just expired. There is hardly any good hair on the newly defined requirements.
What does the change provide? The cost and quality goals would be set for four years and divided into the following cost groups:
