May 2021 Share “It can be said that the equal treatment of all health-insured persons is currently not guaranteed.” This is the stark summary of a report ordered by Switzerland’s Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) and published at the end of last year. The report shows that measures introduced into law on March 1, 2011 with the objective to ensure that patients needing medicines either not authorized in Switzerland or authorized but not yet figuring on the list of reimbursable drugs could receive the medicinal therapy they need — an objective that clearly was not attained. Swiss Health Insurance and Reimbursement System