Scaremongering in the dispute over the premiums: polemics with percentages

18 percent of your income goes to health insurance? In the debate about premium reductions and healthcare costs, disinformation is rampant – right up to polemics with percentages.

Healthcare is expensive, but not as expensive as some claim: emergency room at Zurich University Hospital in Corona mode.

Christoph Ruckstuhl / NZZ

Jacqueline Badran, the elemental political force from Zurich, has a new stage. In the “Sonntags-Zeitung” the SP national councilor is allowed to write columns under the title “Badran’s #Corrigendum”. Ironically, a politician is supposed to correct media misstatements and mistakes. Badran is happy. Under the guise of objectivity, she packs a punch, as opinionated and partisan as could be expected.

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