Death sentence in installments (People 2012, by Emanuel Freudiger) - Swiss Press Award

Death sentence in installments

Emanuel Freudiger

Daniel Steiner*, a student, suffers from the rare, hereditary metabolic disease Pompe disease. He requires annual treatment worth CHF 300,000. His health insurance company now wants to stop payments because the limited therapeutic benefit does not justify the high costs. For Daniel Steiner, this is effectively a death sentence. *Name changed