Saturday 2 February 2013

How Homeopathy Can Help Reduce HealthCare Costs?

Just for a minute let us leave all the controversies surrounding homeopathy aside to do some serious talks on healthcare.

Currently all around the world what does a person do when he falls sick? He takes some home remedies, or medicines he has taken in the past. When not better goes to a doctor and takes some medicines-often untimely, over-prescribed anti-biotics. Here itself lots of expenditure takes place.Often if not better his medicines are changed. Costs incurred.

In the event the complaint is allergic, or infection is chronic, or there is a maintaining cause ,or person is in stress he is not going to get completely better.Repeated visits to doctors.

In the public healthcare this causes expenditure of money and resources.The doctors in govt hospitals are over-burdened and over taxed with these cases which are many times climate-driven.

The patient is now fed-up and unwell and decides to TRY homeopathy.Since homeopathy is known to address all the above issues-allergy,stress,causes etc it helps.

Now if the entire primary care is under-pinned with the homeopath there benefit for all.All allergy, auto-immune,chronic cases could be directly guided to homeopathic department.There can be a proper debate on which cases can start directly with homeopathy.

The doctors will prescribe anti-biotics less as many times even they are not really convinced about it themselves.Also it does seem meaningless to treat allergies and many other complaints by allopathy as everyone knows it has limited scope.
These patients could be diverted to homeopathy.They could then be given anti-biotics in case homeopathy does not give result.That would prevent misuse/overuse and development of resistant strains of organism.
Homeopathic medicines are cheap and there are not much patent issues either.

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