Alternative therapies are put to the test

The Swiss government has given complementary medicine a second chance to prove its worth as an insurable health cost.

Jan 14, 2011.

Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter has announced five therapies previously struck off the state insurance list will be reimbursable from 2012 as part of a six-year trial period. The sting: all must prove their “efficacy, cost-effectiveness and suitability” by 2017.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Alternative_therapies_are_put_to_the_test.html?cid=29242484

Switzerland embeds CAM in constitution

On 17 May 2009 the Swiss people voted in favour of a constitutional article for complementary medicine in a national vote. 67 percent of voters supported the new constitutional article. Switzerland is the first country in Europe to set out in the constitution, authority for the state and constituent states (cantons) to take complementary medicine into consideration in the public health service.

http://www.homeopathyeurope.org/news-and-press/news/switzerland-embeds-cam-in-constitution

Therapy supporters roll up sleeves after vote