This item followed upon an official statement diffused by santésuisse at all the news services of the country during the Easter weekend in which the private health insurers lobby denounces certain tariffs applied by 4% of the doctors in Switzerland. The Swiss Medical Association shouts with the scandal. In fact, by looking at there more closely, the mountain gives birth to a mouse.

Indeed, only 30% of supplies delivered by less than 4% of the doctors (that is to say less than 700 doctors concerned - 1/3 of 1991 doctors, all specialities inclueded , in other words 1.2% of not-justified or overcharged services) are concerned with this denunciation of the powerful lobby of the Health insurers. The SFOPH notes per year, during the pointings of control which it carries out, practically 1200 errors or abuse during the fixing of premium for Obligatory Health Insurance (OHI) by certain insurers of the country. However this figure never justifies the main headlines of the press. That one is not mistaken there! This denunciation falls at appointed time and will not have the least consequence on medical activity in Switzerland. The political campaign for the termination of contract obligation jsut began and all the blows seem allowed so that its fans can still obtain the implementation of it before second half of this year. Which are thus the reasons for such an eagerness? What is understood by "termination of contract obligation" for the insurers? It acts neither more nor less in the spirit of those last ones to enable them to freely choose the doctors with whom they intend to work, in other words to choose those of which they intend to refund the supply.

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