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Healthcare does not. Some insurances do, but you can opt to switch do another.



Not "some".

Out of 110 existing "statutory health insurance companies" 84 cover Homeopathy [1][2]. They aren't required to do so, but are by law explicitly allowed to cover it [3], which is weird enough. And as the numbers suggest, most of them happily do because it attracts many Germans, especially the well-offs.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_deutscher_Krankenkassen [2] https://www.focus.de/finanzen/versicherungen/krankenversiche... [3] http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/sgb_5/__2.html




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