The union of Swiss alternative medicines regrets the decision of Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin, to exclude from the main insurance five additional alternative medicines (anthroposophic medicine, homoeopathy, neural therapy , phytotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine) from June 30th, 2005. SwissMED.net reminds that costs generated by these alternative medicines represent less than 0.16 % of the global costs of Health in Switzerland. This decision is therefore economically absurd. Moreover this choice underestimates the will of Swiss population and leads to a "two speed" medicine. In the law of health insurance LAMal revised the services in global healthcare are no longer at the disposal of all residents: numerous families with many children as well as "Working Poor" cannot contract a supplementary private insurance. Two thirds of the patients suffer from chronic diseases, in those cases alternative medicines are often more effective than scholar allopathic medicine.

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