21.04.2016 09:15 – FSO, Health (0353-1604-20)
Health care costs and financing 2014: provisional data
Health costs increase to CHF 71.2 billion
Neuchâtel, 21.04.2016 (FSO) – Total health care expenditure in 2014 amounted to 71.2 billion, a 2.8% increase compared with the previous year. Growth was therefore below the five year trend. The percentage of gross domestic product spent on health care rose to 11.1%. These are the findings of the Federal Statistical Office’s (FSO) provisional figures on the costs and financing of the health care system.
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The implication of higher health expenditures are visible in the GDP (BIP in the graph below). It boost the GDP, now it is 11% of GDP. It was only 4% in 1990.
According the strange concept called GDP the expenditures are called “income” or “economic growth”. But why does Swiss Statistics call them “costs”?
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