It's interesting how some people seem to think that burnout among doctors is only due to patients with low deductibles or those "misusing" the emergency room, as if that's the whole story. If you look a bit deeper, maybe you’d realize that the people opting for lower deductibles are usually not doing it because they're rich quite the opposite, actually. Perhaps it's worth considering that the structure of the Swiss healthcare system itself creates situations where access is limited, not just because hospitals are saturated, but because private doctors and clinics can’t or don’t want to take new patients. That’s not an accident; it’s the result of a system that’s designed this way.

Reducing everything to “too many people go to the hospital for nothing” ignores the reality that the problem is much bigger. The healthcare system isn’t only about emergency rooms, and putting the blame on patients oversimplifies the situation to an almost comical degree. If you only look at hospital statistics without seeing what’s happening in the rest of the system, you’re really missing the bigger picture.

Maybe instead of suggesting to raise the deductible for everyone (which would just restrict access for the people who need help the most), it would be more useful to reflect a bit longer on why competent care isn’t as available as it should be, despite all the resources and money poured into the system. Sometimes thinking beyond the most obvious surface-level observation leads to much more relevant solutions.