Switzerland will give five complementary therapies, including homeopathy and acupuncture, the same status as conventional medicine when it comes to health insurance. After being rejected in 2005 by the authorities for lack of scientific proof of their efficacy, complementary and alternative medicines made a comeback in 2009 when two-thirds of Swiss backed their inclusion on the constitutional list of paid health services. As a result of the vote, these treatments are covered by basic compulsory insurance as part of six-year trial period from 2012 to 2017. However, they were all required to prove their “efficacy, cost-effectiveness and suitability”. The interior ministry has now said it had come to the conclusion that it was “impossible to provide such proof for these disciplines in their entirety” but that the therapies will continue to be treated on a par with other medical disciplines.
Switzerland to recognize homeopathy as legitimate medicine
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