Price comparison website Comparis expects health insurance premiums to rise by 4% next year. This increase should be seen against an expected rise in healthcare costs of 3.7%. The premium increase for 2026 "would be a step towards true costs after the three premium shocks of 6.6% in 2023, 8.7% in 2024 and 6% in 2025," according to Felix Schneuwly, health insurance expert at Comparis, quoted in a press release published on Thursday. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In his view, without the premium increases kept artificially low between 2018 and 2022 by reductions in reserves imposed by political decision-makers, premiums would already have risen by almost 3% a year between 2018 and 2025. Health insurers now have sufficient reserves again. "Let's hope that the volatility in premiums caused by policymakers is now coming to an end, and that health insurers can use their reserves in such a way that every fluctuation in costs does not systematically lead to a ...
