Should mandatory health insurance cover only hospital stays?

AI-generated summary, admin reviewed: This initiative proposed limiting mandatory health insurance to hospital stays. Outpatient and day-treatment care would no longer have been covered by compulsory insurance, so people would have needed to pay for it themselves or purchase additional insurance. Supporters argued that this would lower compulsory premiums and limit mandatory insurance to major medical risks. Opponents warned that it would reduce access to healthcare, particularly for people with lower incomes, and create a two-tier system. Swiss voters rejected the initiative.

Seed source: Swissvotes federal popular vote dataset.
Swissvotes page: https://swissvotes.ch/vote/472.00
Official result data: https://bk.admin.ch/de/details-volksinitiativen?voteNumber=472
Vote date: 2000-11-26
Original Swissvotes English title: Initiative «für tiefere Spitalkosten»
Original German title: Initiative «für tiefere Spitalkosten»
Swissvotes short-description title: Das Obligatorium der Krankenversicherung bleibt unangetastet
Original French title: Initiative «pour des coûts hospitaliers moins élevés»
Année Politique Suisse description: https://anneepolitique.swiss/prozesse/27972
BFS result map (German): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic&lang=de#c=indicator&i=vp20001126.prop_oui_472_0
BFS result map (French): https://mapexplorer.bfs.admin.ch/?obs=politic&lang=fr#c=indicator&i=vp20001126.prop_oui_472_0
Official chronology (French): https://bk.admin.ch/fr/details-initiatives-populaires?voteNumber=472