In order to reduce the deficit in statutory health insurance companies, the Minister of Health is making savings proposals. According to the report, homeopathy should no longer be funded.
Globules and other remedies from the fields of homeopathy and anthroposophy are controversial. © the_burtons/Getty Images
According to a media report, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to remove homeopathy as a health insurance benefit. “Services that have no medically proven benefit may not be financed from contributions,” says a letter of recommendation from the minister, about which the Spiegel reported. “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 health insurance companies.” However, it should still be possible to take out additional insurance.
The recommendation is apparently one of several savings proposals that are intended to reduce the billion-dollar deficit in statutory health insurance.
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According to a media report, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to remove homeopathy as a health insurance benefit. “Services that have no medically proven benefit may not be financed from contributions,” says a letter of recommendation from the minister, about which the Spiegel reported. “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 health insurance companies.” However, it should still be possible to take out additional insurance.
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