
Health insurance
Guide to Health Insurance in Switzerland
This guide explains how the Swiss system works, the main decisions that need to be made and the points to check before choosing or changing insurance cover.
Guides
Reference guides designed to clarify the rules, compare the options and prepare the right questions before making a decision.
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Reference guides designed to clarify the rules, compare the options and prepare the right questions before making a decision.

Health insurance
This guide explains how the Swiss system works, the main decisions that need to be made and the points to check before choosing or changing insurance cover.

Supplementary insurance
This guide explains how supplementary health insurance works in Switzerland, the main types of cover available and the points to consider before taking out, changing or cancelling a policy.

Life in Switzerland
This guide does not revisit in detail how compulsory health insurance or supplementary health insurance works. Its purpose is to provide a practical method for choosing between different options.

Hospital care
In this context, hospital insurance should no longer be regarded simply as a luxury for a small minority. It is a way of preserving additional options for the day when health becomes the overriding priority.

Life in Switzerland
It is not merely a list of administrative tasks. Its purpose is to distinguish between what must be done immediately, what should be examined carefully and what can be planned once the initial move is complete.

Family protection
This guide follows families from planning a pregnancy through to their children entering adult life.

Pension provision
following departure from Switzerland.

Health reimbursements
This guide explains how the main supplementary health insurance reimbursements in Switzerland work and how they can be incorporated intelligently into an insurance decision.

Life in Switzerland
They relate to risks that may be uncommon, but whose financial or practical consequences can be considerable.

After age 50
Good cover can then support the insured person during the stage of life when hospital treatment, medication, travel-related risks and other healthcare needs gradually become more important.
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