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Lauterbach desires to take away homeopathy as a medical health insurance profit
Globules constituted of sugar with no demonstrable well being impact: Health Minister Lauterbach (SPD) now desires to take away homeopathic cures like this from medical health insurance advantages. (symbolic photograph)
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Karl Lauterbach desires to ban homeopathy from statutory medical health insurance advantages. The foundation of coverage should be scientific proof, mentioned the Health Minister.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach desires to abolish the financing of homeopathic remedies by statutory funds. “Homeopathy makes no sense as a health insurance benefit,” wrote the SPD politician on the web platform X (previously Twitter). “The basis of our policy must be scientific evidence.” Climate change “cannot be fought with dowsing rods”.
Homeopathic medicines might be based mostly on plant, mineral and animal substances. The extraordinarily diluted substances are administered, for instance, within the type of beads (globules). The scientific consensus is that homeopathic remedies haven’t been confirmed to have any impact that goes past placebo results.
Homeopathy ought to not be a money profit: Karl Lauterbach presents a financial savings plan
As “Spiegel” reported on Wednesday night, Lauterbach’s ministry despatched a suggestion paper to different ministers explaining the place financial savings might be made with statutory medical health insurance. According to the report, it says: “Services that have no medically proven benefit may not be financed from contributions.” And additional: “For this reason, we will delete the option for health insurance companies to provide for homeopathic and anthroposophical services in their statutes and thus avoid unnecessary expenditure by the health insurance companies.” However, further insurance coverage ought to nonetheless be attainable.
Lauterbach had already mentioned in October 2022 that he would think about eradicating homeopathy as a medical health insurance profit. “Although homeopathy is not significant in terms of expenditure, it has no place in a science-based health policy,” he informed “Spiegel” on the time. According to the journal, the measure would save a most of ten million euros.
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