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As opposed to the massive Homeopathy industry in Germany? I think the overall healthcare industry plays a part but I would bet that this is more of a human prob

As opposed to the massive Homeopathy industry in Germany? I think the overall healthcare industry plays a part but I would bet that this is more of a human problem and less of an "american healthcare system is bad" issue. Germany has a massive homeopathic industry including brick and mortar stores, you could go to Asia and look at traditional chinese medicine. People love the idea of easy fixes where you can drink something or apply a herbal cream and your problems go away.

netsharc 3y ago
Xi Jinping wants to promote TCM as superior Chinese tech (saving your lives using tech that's worked for millennia!), their doctors were even giving out TCM to fight Covid: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/asia/china-tcm-approved-covid-intl-hnk-scli/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/asia/china-tcm-approved-c... (ah, but the Emperor is wearing the most magnificent garment!), I can imagine the CCP funding TCM practicioners all over the world (like the Thai government with Thai restaurants)... Ah, the irrationality of humans strike again.
gumby 3y ago
On homeopathy, I will say that when my mother in law's cancer got to the point where no more treatment was possible, she went home and diligently took her homeopathic "medicine" sent by her German health insurance. At first I thought it was 100% nonsense, but I realized it gave her a sense of agency over her situation, which was good for her (until she got too sick to do anything for herself). So only 98% nonsense.
- pinkgolem 3y ago
  German health insurance does not send out any medication, it also will not pay for homeopathic medicine anymore, but that's very recent and is not yet finalized
  - gumby 3y ago
    This was around 2004, but I should have said "paid for". Also the Diakonie came by twice a day to change her dressings, make sure she was fed, etc. SHe didn't have two pfennigs to rub together and the system made things go about as well as they could. Here in the US it seems barbaric by comparison.
pinkgolem 3y ago
What? The homeopathic market in Germany is not what I would call big, it's well below 1% of the medical budget from all numbers I can find
- infecto 3y ago
  I saw numbers that its a over a billion dollar industry. Lots of homeopathic practicioners and from my sample size of news articles, seems to be a hot topic in recent German history. Perhaps "massive" creates too much of a spin, my only point was that alternative medicines and pseudoscience exists out of the America and its not accurate to paint it as an American problem.

netsharc 3y ago

Xi Jinping wants to promote TCM as superior Chinese tech (saving your lives using tech that's worked for millennia!), their doctors were even giving out TCM to fight Covid: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/asia/china-tcm-approved-covid-intl-hnk-scli/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/04/asia/china-tcm-approved-c... (ah, but the Emperor is wearing the most magnificent garment!), I can imagine the CCP funding TCM practicioners all over the world (like the Thai government with Thai restaurants)... Ah, the irrationality of humans strike again.

gumby 3y ago

On homeopathy, I will say that when my mother in law's cancer got to the point where no more treatment was possible, she went home and diligently took her homeopathic "medicine" sent by her German health insurance. At first I thought it was 100% nonsense, but I realized it gave her a sense of agency over her situation, which was good for her (until she got too sick to do anything for herself). So only 98% nonsense.

pinkgolem 3y ago
German health insurance does not send out any medication, it also will not pay for homeopathic medicine anymore, but that's very recent and is not yet finalized
- gumby 3y ago
  This was around 2004, but I should have said "paid for". Also the Diakonie came by twice a day to change her dressings, make sure she was fed, etc. SHe didn't have two pfennigs to rub together and the system made things go about as well as they could. Here in the US it seems barbaric by comparison.

pinkgolem 3y ago

What? The homeopathic market in Germany is not what I would call big, it's well below 1% of the medical budget from all numbers I can find

infecto 3y ago
I saw numbers that its a over a billion dollar industry. Lots of homeopathic practicioners and from my sample size of news articles, seems to be a hot topic in recent German history. Perhaps "massive" creates too much of a spin, my only point was that alternative medicines and pseudoscience exists out of the America and its not accurate to paint it as an American problem.