
By Dave Chase – September 28, 2026
In 1899, sixty members of the Catholic Workers’ Association in Switzerland promised to help carry each other’s costs when illness or accident struck. That promise became CSS, which now insures about 1.7 million people, almost one in five Swiss, and still belongs to the association that grew from its founders.
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