[rayiner]

It’s not any more public than in America. Individuals pay their own health insurance premiums. Individuals who don’t have enough money can receive a subsidy from the canton: https://www.ch.ch/en/health/health-insurance/health-insuranc.... That’s exactly how Obamacare works. The cap at which the subsidy kicks in is almost the same, too: 8% of income in CH, 8.5% under Obamacare.

And on top of that the US has a fully publicly funded system, Medicaid.

[TMWNN]

Thank you for beating me to the punch regarding the Swiss system vis-a-vis the US post-Obamacare. The mental gymnastics that people (not just here, but on Reddit and online in general) resort to to maintain their presupposition that the US system is completely unique (and thus "capitalist"/"not socialist") compared to the rest of the world get very tiresome.

A huge contributor to the confusion in US discussion of the issue comes from the fact that the two countries we are closest to, Canada and UK, both have free-at-use systems. Too many Americans think that all other developed countries' systems are "100% free" and "just like the NHS", when they are arguably more the aberration when compared to DACH's sickness funds, France's 30% copays, and the Australian system that really, really, really encourages going private. This creates a weird feedback loop in which residents of other countries, in turn, get confused about their own systems when compared to the US's.