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Homeopathy will not be refunded. The decision was announced Tuesday, July 9 by the Minister of Solidarity and Health Agnès Buzyn, which follows the opinion of the High Health Authority. This decision was hailed by doctors opposed to this practice, but of course denounced by homeopathic doctors. And the Boiron laboratories, the market leader, have expressed their dissatisfaction, supported in this by certain political figures.
In order to try to get the pill over, the cancellation of homeopathy will be gradual: the reimbursement rate by social security will increase from 30% to 15% in 2020. Then from 2021, granules will not be taken at all. charge. The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, a doctor herself, agreed with the opinion of the High Health Authority (HAS), made 10 days ago. According to this organization, homeopathic products are not sufficiently effective to warrant reimbursement.
For the Minister, the one-year transition period will help support patients and give industry time to organize. Industrialists are upwind against this measure; at least 1,300 jobs would be threatened in France according to them. The French group Boiron, world leader in the market, denounced a decision that goes against an " eminently popular " practice. According to a survey, more than half of French people have used this so-called soft medicine several times.
Elected officials regretted that is not maintained at least a refund of 15%, such Gerard Collomb, mayor of Lyon, birthplace of Boiron, or Xavier Bertrand, president of the region Hauts-de-France, where the group is also implanted . Agnès Buzyn says she will take an unpopular decision in the name of scientific reality.