Financial expert reveals why Lauterbach wants to eliminate homeopathic treatments as a health insurance benefit

Financial expert reveals why Lauterbach wants to eliminate homeopathic treatments as a health insurance benefit

According to a report by www.ruhr24.de, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is planning drastic changes in the financing of homeopathic treatments by statutory health insurance companies. He intends to delete homeopathic and anthroposophical services from the statutes of health insurance companies because he argues that they have no medically proven benefits. Lauterbach emphasizes that the foundation of health policy should be based on scientific evidence and compares supporting homeopathy to trying to “fight climate change with dowsing rods.”

This planned measure aims to make savings in statutory health insurance. Although homeopathy only accounts for a small proportion of other health expenditures, Lauterbach sees it as incompatible with science-based health policy. The estimated savings from this measure are, according to theMirrora maximum of ten million euros.

The effects of such a change can be diverse. First of all, it is important to note that the abolition of homeopathic services for those with statutory health insurance would mean that they would have to finance these treatments themselves in the future. This could lead to higher costs for patients and, in the long term, a change in consumer behavior in the healthcare sector.

Furthermore, the planned measure could have an impact on the alternative medicine market. Doctors, therapists and manufacturers of homeopathic medicines could suffer a loss of revenue as demand for these treatments could decrease.

Overall, Lauterbach's plan to remove homeopathy as a health insurance benefit could lead to changes in the financial industry and the healthcare market. It remains to be seen how politicians and society will react to this measure and what long-term effects it will have.