Re:Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising
by seanmcdirmid on Sunday February 13, 2022 @05:54PM
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Switzerland’s system is what Obama and Romney care was modeled on: mandatory insurance, but prices are regulated and group plans are disallowed. As such, no company can really reduce costs that way (but it’s good PR), so it’s up to the Swiss government to ensure most healthiness (which they definitely do in ways many Americans would find authoritarian, eg the extra tax males have to pay if they are unfit for conscription).
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Re:Swiss back further restrictions on tobacco advertising
by _nalply on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:11AM
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Being Deaf I am unfit for conscription. Thirty years ago I would have needed to pay that tax (in French: Taxe d’exemption de l’obligation de servir) [0].
However I was allowed to serve in a different service: civil protection [1]. In case of war I would have gone outside and done measurements for radioactivity, chemical and biological warfare agents. My departement was called ABC (atomic, biological and chemical). I am happy and lucky that the war-games never got real.
Later people with disabilities were exempt from the tax. But then I was thirty and already discharged.
Links are to French text, sorry, no English text available.
[0]: https://www.vtg.admin.ch/fr/mon-service-militaire/generalite...