Homeopathic remedies have not been reimbursed since January 1, 2021. Their effectiveness was deemed insufficient by the health authorities.
That's it: since January 1, 2021, homeopathy is no longer reimbursed in France . A delisting which should have an impact on the population since, according to an Ipsos survey carried out for Boiron laboratories in October 2018, 70% of French people use homeopathy to relieve their first symptoms, 74% consider that homeopathic remedies are " effective ", and 71% think that homeopathy is a good complement to" classic "treatments.
How to explain this delisting? Asked by our colleagues from Le Parisien in July 2019, the former Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn explained that " everything that is funded by national solidarity is first evaluated by the High Authority of Health (HAS). (...) only homeopathic medicines have escaped it. in 1984, the Minister of social Affairs of the time decided to refund without going through this process. It was a choice to develop the industry. (...) I took the HAS on August 1, 2018. It has just made an independent assessment and estimates, after analyzing 800 studies on the benefit for patients, that these granules have an efficacy equivalent to a placebo."
The effectiveness of homeopathic remedies disputed by health authorities
The problem is therefore the effectiveness of homeopathic remedies: " I understand the attachment of the French to this type of treatment. But they have neither proven their interest in public health nor in the treatment of common pathologies. perhaps working on the idea that it is not always necessary to take a drug "added Agnès Buzyn.
Homeopathy reimbursement: will it (really) change anything? Not so sure. " Already, a large part of these drugs [including the famous Oscillococcinum and Arnigel] are not reimbursed. For the 1200 others, consumed by around 7 million French people in 2018, the average amount reimbursed is 18 euros per year, or less of 1.5 euros per month "affirmed Agnès Buzyn in 2019.
Asked by our colleagues from the New Republic , the president of the order of pharmacists in Indre-et-Loire, Nicolas Hay, believes that this decision will " cost health insurance money. People who will not be treated more by homeopathy, because it will be necessary to put the hand in the pocket, will be cured by allopathy, which is more expensive and which is often reimbursed at 30% or 65%. (…) Even if it is by a placebo effect, homeopathy was treating many people. "
Homeopathy: will the prices increase? Possible. Because the delisting of homeopathy by the State (effective from January 1, 2021) allows pharmaceutical companies to freely set their prices. According to professionals in the sector, prices could rise by 25%.
The principle of homeopathy is based on the idea that the body is able to heal itself. Thus, the substances used in homeopathy aim to reproduce the symptoms caused by the disease to be treated, in order to strengthen the patient's healing capacities. In addition, each person is taken into account in their individuality and their entirety in order to find the most suitable treatments. Homeopathic products are highly diluted, because this alternative medicine considers that this allows to strengthen their curative effects. The basic substances come from the animal, plant and mineral world.
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