Switzerland
Healthcare in Switzerland mandates participation in a national healthcare system for all residents. Public hospitals are subsidized, but there are also private hospitals that private additional services, such as elective services.
Also, in addition to a national universal insurance fund, optional complementary and supplementary private insurance funds are available for purchase.
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“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)