Homeopathy will no longer be covered by health insurance. Increased mandatory discounts for public health insurance funds from the pharmaceutical industry. New limits on fees for health insurance executives, as well as their administrative and advertising costs
Stop, I can only get so erect
edit:
The reform package does not include the commission’s one recommendation with the greatest potential for savings, namely for the health insurance costs for welfare recipients to be paid out of state coffers. The commission estimated this could save the insurers €12.5 billion in 2027 alone.
flaccid again 🥲
It’s easier than trying to get the money from the esteemed billionaire class.
Just conservatives enshittifying things.
No more coverage for homeopathy is enshittification?
The German system funds too much bullshit disguised as medicine.
You know how the way the homeopathic charlatans work is by diluting a tiny amount of active ingredient into a huge amount of water and then tell you that creates more potent medicine?
Don’t you see the same logic here? They are not diverting the funding that used to go to pseudoscience towards evidence based care. No no no, sir. They are diluting a tiny bit of good decision making (defunding the quacks) in a huge amount of bad decision making (healthcare cuts).
Just like you can’t dilute a tiny bit of, I dunno, acetaminophen in a 100 liters of water and claim it is still medicinal, you also can’t dilute a tiny bit of reasonable policy in billions of euros of cuts and call the whole package sensible.
and no more coverage for homeopathy.
Oh no.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific[a] system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its practitioners, called homeopaths or homeopathic physicians,[5] believe that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure similar symptoms in sick people; this doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or “like cures like”.[6]
Homeopathic preparations are termed remedies and are made using homeopathic dilution. In this process, the selected substance is repeatedly diluted until the final product is indistinguishable from the diluent. Often not even a single molecule of the original substance can be expected to remain in the product.[7] Between each dilution homeopaths may hit and/or shake the product, claiming this makes the diluent “remember” the original substance after its removal. Practitioners claim that such preparations, upon oral intake, can treat or cure disease.[8] All relevant scientific knowledge about physics, chemistry, biochemistry and biology contradicts homeopathy.[b] Homeopathic remedies are typically biochemically inert, and have no effect on any known disease.[9][17][18] Homeopathy’s theory of disease, centered around principles Hahnemann termed miasms, is inconsistent with subsequent identification of viruses and bacteria as causes of disease. Clinical trials have been conducted and generally demonstrated no objective effect from homeopathic preparations.[19][20][21]: 206 [22] The fundamental implausibility of homeopathy as well as a lack of demonstrable effectiveness has led to it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as quackery and fraud.[2][23][24]
The amount they spent on homeopathy wasn’t super large, actually, but it’s still welcome to see it getting kicked out. Until now it had been grandfathered past the requirement for medicine to have proven effectiveness on grounds of cultural inertia.
Mind you, I would’ve preferred it getting dropped due to sufficient public pushback against its special treatment and not as a cost-saving measure. But hey, I’ll take it.
Homeopathy
Chiropractic
Osteopathy
Therapeutic touch
The list of fake medicine goes on and on. See YouTube.
Prescribing what is in effect a placebo to patients that would otherwise insist on getting some other type of medication despite unclear diagnosis is probably cheaper and potentially more healthy 🤷
Second opinions for surgery is just a good idea.
See the Florida doctor this week who accidentally removed a liver.
I pay my homeopathic doctor with a scoop of water out of my swimming pool which has a $100 bill soaking in it.
Gotta get ready for war
