This is the final draw for me I am done. So turns out Swica does not pay for a baby first aid course, which almost all parents want and all parents do need to ensure the safety of their children, BUT it is happily paying if I take a “homeopathic first aid course”, schlüssler salz, or energy field therapy?
I’m fine with other people preferring bullshit for their own health and they are free to give their choking or bleeding children sugar pills, but one I don’t want to pay actual money (not energetic money) for their delulu, two as an equally paying customer why do the flatearthers get free courses on bullshit, and I don’t get a medically appropriate fundamental one?
Anyone managed to cancel out all this homeopathic shit? I don’t care if it’s 5 franks a month, I want it out just to make them do this or go for an insurance who pays for actual medicine. Any recommendations?
Also any vereins maybe fighting this snake oilers? I seriously want to join lol.
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Swica is one of the worst who can be found. Change it as soon as possible.
what the mandatory insurance covers is up to the lawmakers, not the insurance. if it‘s part of the additional insurance, you can cancel the contract.
Didn’t we had a popular vote about this homeopathic nonsense and sadly got approved, can’t remember properly.
But also,.. a course to care for your children, sure it would be nice to be paid for, but then again, its called Krankenkasse, its not an illness, but I may got my downvotes for this.
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Selber Schuld, wenn man eine solche Zusatzversicherung hat und bezahlt. Ist ja klar aufgelistet, was enthalten ist und was nicht. Gibt genug andere Versicherungen mit anpassbaren Leistungen.
Extending this: went to my local pharmacy (apotheke) for Covid test and ffp2 masks before going to see an immunocompromised relative.
Neither item available, could’ve ordered with a few weeks lead time. Store full of ads and products for homeopathic treatments. You get one guess whether I would ever trust such a pharmacy for any advice whatsoever.
Homeopathy is covered by KVG, so by all insurances in Switzerland unfortunately.
You can‘t escape that.
Something like a First Aid course MAY be covered by some supplemental insurances. Different thing, mandatory vs. supplemental insurance.
By cancelling the supplementary insurance you could probably afford to pay a Kindernotfallkurs every month
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I think there should be a free course that everyone can take, that teaches people how a Krankenkasse-Versicherung works, what Grundversicherung and what Zusatzversicherung is etc etc. Why? Because it is mandatory to have an Krankenkasse-Versicherung. Maybe make it a course in the last year of Sekundar Schule. Maybe even put Taxes in this course too for good messure.
It always astonishes me how loved the massive con that homeopathy is in this country
Boils my piss when the pharmacy asks “homeopathy or traditional ?”
Hocus pocus bullshit or scientifically proven medicine?
I’d be curious to see how much the “gotta take homeopathic medicine because the Pharma companies are killing you with their chemicals” overlaps with the smoking population.
I really think the health insurance here is nothing about health and totally abusive and built around maximizing profits for insurers and providers (the least) but absolutely not about health promotion. One of the worst systems I know. Money draining no real impact bullshit.
I might be wrong, but CSS might have a more modular additional insurance that allows you to not have magic included by the civerage
First Aid with homeopathy is paid 😭
My recommendation, which comes a bit late now: If you want to have children, you can easily discuss this in advance with your health insurance agent and make adjustments to supplementary insurances so that such things are covered later. However, this means you have to approach the matter in an organized way beforehand.
I’m a homeopath. I liked the fact that insurance in your country supports homeopathic treatment. I can smell Downvotes coming my way tho
Oh this is a common issue in Germanic cultures, like one could have something that needs antibiotics but they will tell you to “drink xyz tea” instead
From a business model innovation perspective, if I were a medical practitioner, I would offer KVG-compliant *”first aid courses incorporating homeopathy”*, spending five minutes (or the absolute minimum amount of time required) on homeopathy and the rest of the time on proper first aid.
I approve of this rant.
“You know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine” – Tim Minchin
Homeopathy and other scams really need to disappear from the basic insurance. Unfortunately. Steiner is influential in Switzerland, and hence lots of otherwise sensible people believe in nonsense.
I mean, I can see homeopathy as a placebo, for someone who doesn’t know better. But recently, someone was trying to convince me to give homeopathic treatment to our dog. Who isn’t going to be fooled by any sort of placebo effect, because he doesn’t even know he’s getting medicine. Woo woo magic stuff…
And on the gripping hand: I actually do see a value for natural healers: Not because of the healing, but because they are someone to talk to. IMHO it’s more of a therapy effect. But again: supplemental insurance, not in the basic insurance that we all must pay.