In Switzerland, A Health Care Model For America?
npr.org 9/24/2009 — At first glance, Switzerland's health care system looks like it could be the perfect political compromise for the United States. As Republicans would prefer, individuals not employers or the government choose from a broad array of health plans, sold ...

Switzerland Offers to Consider Taking Gitmo Detainees
talkleft.com 1/21/2009 — The Government of Switzerland made a generous offer today -- it is willing to consider taking Guantanamo detainees who cannot return to their home countries: "For Switzerland, the detention of people in Guantanamo is in conflict with international ...

Switzerland offers legal assisted suicide (AP)
news.yahoo.com 7/16/2009 — AP - Some countries allow incurably sick residents to receive medical help to end their lives, but Switzerland also permits foreigners to travel there for assisted suicide. Every year more than 100 terminally ill people from countries that ban the ...

Is Switzerland a Model of Health Care Compromise?
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 3/10/2009 — Ezra Klein writes that Republicans are drawing the lines of opposition to the progressive health care agenda in pretty narrow terms : Does that matter? It’s hard to say. Rhetorically, the GOP has staked out a very narrow corner of ...

Small Government
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/13/2008 — Some observations from Switzerland that may be relevant to the ongoing talking point from some libertarian institutions that a lack of fealty to small government orthodoxy somehow did the GOP in. They have over here a party of the populist right ...

RPT-FEATURE-Corporate oil booms in low-tax Switzerland | Industries | Energy
reuters.com 3/12/2009 — * Companies seek Swiss domiciles despite tax row * U.S. political climate may be helping * Appeal as corporate location may outlast offshore dispute By Sam Cage ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 (Reuters) - The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland ...

Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria Loosen Secrecy Rules (Update1)
bloomberg.com 3/13/2009 — March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria said they will soften rules on banking secrecy, responding to growing international pressure to root out tax dodgers. Switzerland, where banking secrecy has been enshrined in law for 75 ...

Swiss ‘Not in America’s Pocket’; ‘Proud’ of Polanski Arrest: Le Temps, Switzerland
themoderatevoice.com 10/1/2009 — Continuing our foreign press coverage of the Roman Polanski saga, this news item from Switzerland’s Le Temps reports that an embarrassed Swiss foreign ministry is denying any deal related to the UBS scandal and that the people of Switzerland ‘can be proud’ that Polanski ...

Partisan is as partisan does - reflections on writing a book
angrybear.blogspot.com 7/17/2009 — by cactus The other day I had a post about a book I'm co-authoring ; the book is slated to come out in the spring. As I noted then, the book looks at at how a large number of variables - everything from abortion rates to economic growth, evolved over the length of each presidential ...

Swiss Insurance Actually Pretty Different
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 9/8/2009 — Contrary to what I wrote this morning , as Scott Lemieux points out the Swiss health care system is actually pretty different from what Max Baucus’ proposal would leave us with. Notably, according to this Commonwealth Fund report “In ...