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Article: German funds to back homeopathic drugs.
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- Pharma Marketletter
- Article date:
- March 15, 2004
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The German government is to ease its current health reform to enable health funds to reimburse homeopathic drugs and medicines on prescription.
However, the funds and medical professions have warned that, as a result, earlier economic targets for the health service under the reform will not be achieved.
A main result of the reform is that, since the start of 2004, patients have had to pay for non-prescription drugs out of their own pockets, a move expected to save 1.2 billion euros ($1.48 billion). Exceptions to this regime can only be approved if the drugs and medicines in question are used to treat severe illness and are of a high therapeutic level.
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