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.

Federal Councillor Couchepin takes into account in his analysis only the supplementary costs which would cause alternative medicines on the obligatory healthcare insurance while the studies show clearly that these last ones simultaneously reduce the expenses due to conventional medicine: the diagnoses and the therapies in conventional medicine are more expensive, traditional medicines cost more and produce frequent side effects.