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Originally Posted by BillyJoe
If someone chooses to attend a homoeopath, is not harmed, feels better for the experience, and pays for the service and feels it's money well spent, who am I to complain or stand in the way.
But there are still two nagging concerns: You should not expect the public to foot the bill unless there is clear evidence of benefit.
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BillyJoe,
I feel there is a contradiction in what you write, let's get that clear, if you don't mind.
"If someone chooses to attend a homeopath, is not harmed, feels better for the experience and pays for the service and feels it's money well spent" - you do not feel the need to look into that matter further. However, if the same person does the same - under the public health insurance system - you feel that they've taken your money. Maybe, you forget that this person also pays into the system, and as the study in France that I mentioned suggests, the people who visit homeopeopaths spend LESS of public money, so it might well be that they get paid back even less than they've paid into the system, although, this needs to be looked into, but that's what I feel myself here. We have not visited a doctor not once in 10 years, the children were born with the midwife and no medication at all, still we pay into the local scheme, obviously we are now paying for someone's conventional treatment... Although I'm not that attached to money and do not mind this at all.
ANd re "homeopathic vaccinations" I personally am totally against the idea, and while I think there will not be much harm, I also think that it's not how the homeopathy is done in the classical way. You can only treat people when they have symptoms, not before that.
And I would never suggest anyone to forgo usual vaccinations either though I avoid vaccinating my own children completely. If the people feel safer that way, they should make their own decisions, if they ask me what homeopaths think about the issue I'll tell them, if they'll ask me why I do not vaccinate my children, I will tell them, but I'll certainly add that they are in no way obliged to follow my advice, but should weigh all pros and cons themselves - and bear the responsibility for their choice. I know a woman whose child, when he was 2, was hospitalized in coma after receiving a flu shot. The mother has learned something from this incident, needless to say, he did not get any more vaccinations after that. He's 7 now, so far he had no big problems from lack of vaccinations.