The French government has determined to gradually decrease into extinction the public funds dedicated to homeopathy. Essentially, by 2021 (according to the most optimist predictions), homeopathic treatment and medicine will not be covered by the state welfare system. The decision was taken, following the conclusions of the High Health Authority, which judged the alternative practice of homeopathy as completely ineffectual. Their observation are hardly controversial, since every test and experiment has shown homeopathy to be as beneficial to our health as the most rudimentary placebo. Unlike sugar pills, however, camel hair and platypus liver costs significantly higher and also promise miraculously quick and easy cures.
Unfortunately, however, the government initiative is definitely going to cause an uproar, as alternative medicine with its various manifestation is extremely popular (an absolute majority views it positively), in a hypochondriac nation which generally justifies the stereotypes of Molière's Imaginary Invalid. Especially many radical environmentalists will take advantage of that measure, because their narrative, based on a reasonable suspicion towards the shady practices of the pharmaceutical industry, is basically the epitome of the appeal to nature fallacy.
Personally, I'm no fan of Emmanuel Macron, but, in this case, I think that the proposed legislation should be praised, regardless of someone's political affiliation or orientation. Homeopathy is pretty much as valid as witchcraft, so, nowadays, where the pheonomenon of quackery grows in importance and actually manages to threaten public health (check the anti-vaccination movement, for instance), the crucial role of the fight against pseudo-science should not be neglected. After all, whoever insists on the contribution of homeopathy is free to opt for private insurance (guaranteed to cover the void, should the new law be implemented), without harming the state's treasury.