Health Minister Jens Spahn announced that the costs of homeopathy medicines will continue to be reimbursed by health insurance companies.
Homeopathy is always an interesting topic to watch on social media. Supporters and opponents meet here in the “open field” and the discussions are burning.
At the same time, you can always find a lot of creative commentary or satire. That's what happened today too, even if it's difficult to distinguish between reality and satire in some publications ( good job on Postillon ).
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What can be said about the facts: The Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn wants to keep health insurance companies covering the costs of homeopathic medicines, even if these are criticized. According to him, this is because these costs for the statutory health insurance companies “only” amount to around 20 million euros per year. He contrasts these costs with the approximately 40 billion euros in total medication costs.
Federal Health Minister Jens #Spahn does not want to affect the controversial reimbursement of costs for homeopathic medicines by health insurance companies. He decided it was “so okay.” https://t.co/VzKVG9zt0Q
— SPIEGEL ONLINE (@SPIEGELONLINE) September 18, 2019
And it's exactly these kinds of topics that are hot on social media!
Reactions on Twitter
You can often find exciting reactions to this, especially on Twitter. We looked around a little and would like to show some of the reactions.
Thanks @jensspahn for nothing 🙂 #Homeopathy does not work beyond the placebo effect. https://t.co/Gl5NuzMTNs pic.twitter.com/4hBr6s570H
— erzaehlmirnix (@erzaehlmirnix) September 18, 2019
The power of the Glaubolies! #Homeopathy pic.twitter.com/4Ai6Qd8H5M
— extra3 (@extra3) September 18, 2019
That's how politics works. It's not about facts, it's about whether it's better to spend money or anger a lobby group. In the case of #homeopathy, @jensspahn
has decided that not upsetting the lobby group is worth €20 million to him. https://t.co/TOU0ZtEQhM— Lyck+Pätzold (@Medizinanwaelte) September 18, 2019
It helped a friend of a friend. Exorcise ghosts once and hey presto, after two weeks the cold was gone. #Homeopathy #Spahn pic.twitter.com/Q6m39FLozS
— The Gazetteur (@dergazetteur) September 18, 2019
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They promised us robots and hoverboards. And what did we get? #Anti-vaxxers #Millennials who swear #astrology #Homoeopathy fans #Organic markets with #crystals to energize water.
Instead of the 21st century, we ended up in the 19th.
— Michael Gehrmann (@mge_de) September 14, 2019
#Homöogeddon again today ? But I'm with you, the application should be privately financed because it doesn't fit into the health insurance canon. I don't understand this #spahn either. ? #Homeopathy
— Naike (@NaikeLeNormand) September 18, 2019
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