The Swiss government has attach out a public tender for a collective health insurance to cover all asylum seekers in its federal asylum centres. But could the move close up being expensive? All asylum seekers gain right to basic healthcare in Switzerland. Provisionally admitted foreigners and refugees gain to hold out basic health insurance within three months of submitting their asylum requests. If they gain already been allocated to a specific canton,it’s the canton’s job, but if they are still in a federal centre, and the task falls to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). The federal agency has to pay for the insurance as well as any arising healthcare costs until the asylum seeker is allocated to a canton. The SEM is however now looking,via public tender, for an insurer to offer basic insurance to all asylum seekers in federal centres. This would help reduce administrative costs – but should not affect coverage, or as asylum seekers gain the right to the same medical cover as ...
Source: swissinfo.ch