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Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 3:01 am
Article is about Americans, but unfortunately most other countries are not much different
Americans spend a good chunk of their healthcare dollars on alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, yoga, chiropractic care and natural supplements, a new government report shows.
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Expenditures in 2012 included:
• $14.7 billion out of pocket on visits to complementary practitioners such as chiropractors, yoga instructors, acupuncturists or massage therapists -- nearly 30 percent of what people spent on traditional medical services.
• $12.8 billion on natural product supplements, which was about one-quarter of what people spent on prescription drugs.
• $2.7 billion on books, CDs, videos and other self-help materials related to complementary health.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/06/2...466603248/
What?! Chiropracticy is an alternative medicine?! So that means that Alan from "2 and a half men" is a fraud?!! And they say Charlie Sheen is nuts.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 3:14 am
Fucking idiots.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 3:17 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2016 at 3:18 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The chiropracter thing was brilliance in action. Imagine you're a car insurance company...and you can either pay out the ass to send a person to a real doctor..or send them to a quack that's gonna snap their bones for pennies on the dollar.
It's a no-brainer, and that's exactly how the industry was born, here in the US.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 6:34 am
(June 24, 2016 at 3:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: [...]What?! Chiropracticy is an alternative medicine?! So that means that Alan from "2 and a half men" is a fraud?!! And they say Charlie Sheen is nuts.
To be fair - if I'm not mistaken, Charlie Sheen publicly went off his antiretroviral drugs, in order to cure his HIV, with goat's milk therapy, administered by a Mexican quack, who claimed to have injected himself with Sheen's infected blood, to prove his confidence in his healing abilities.
At least chiropractor is not very likely to kill you (although that does happen occasionally). But yeah - chiropractic is utter bullsh*t, concocted by a grocer, after he came to believe, that he cured deafness, by playfully hitting a guy on the back, during casual conversation.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 7:00 am
(June 24, 2016 at 3:17 am)Rhythm Wrote: The chiropracter thing was brilliance in action. Imagine you're a car insurance company...and you can either pay out the ass to send a person to a real doctor..or send them to a quack that's gonna snap their bones for pennies on the dollar.
It's a no-brainer, and that's exactly how the industry was born, here in the US.
I worked for St*te F*rm Ins. and we didn't steer people to chiros. Quite the opposite. In Indiana the insurance companies and medical establishment was found guilty of conspiring against the chiroquacktic practitioners. Now claim handlers have to sit through an annual presentation by the idiots.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 7:03 am
(This post was last modified: June 24, 2016 at 7:04 am by The Grand Nudger.)
When? Chiropracters consolidated their industry and business model (including profitable dependencies) in 1974 - and particularly so in "no-fault" states.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 7:39 am
(June 24, 2016 at 3:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Article is about Americans, but unfortunately most other countries are not much different
Americans spend a good chunk of their healthcare dollars on alternative medicine, such as acupuncture, yoga, chiropractic care and natural supplements, a new government report shows.
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Expenditures in 2012 included:
• $14.7 billion out of pocket on visits to complementary practitioners such as chiropractors, yoga instructors, acupuncturists or massage therapists -- nearly 30 percent of what people spent on traditional medical services.
• $12.8 billion on natural product supplements, which was about one-quarter of what people spent on prescription drugs.
• $2.7 billion on books, CDs, videos and other self-help materials related to complementary health.
http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2016/06/2...466603248/
What?! Chiropracticy is an alternative medicine?! So that means that Alan from "2 and a half men" is a fraud?!! And they say Charlie Sheen is nuts.
That's a lot of money spent on bullshit. America spends too much on prescription drugs aswell. It's probably not as bad as Africa or China though where endangered animals are at risk from alternative medicine.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 7:41 am
Roger that, they need to cut straight to the chase and sell human penis powder and skullshards.
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 7:42 am
(June 24, 2016 at 7:41 am)Rhythm Wrote: Roger that, they need to cut straight to the chase and sell human penis powder and skullshards.
Would you, like, snort that or mix it into a drink? 
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RE: Americans spend $30 billion annually on alternative medicine
June 24, 2016 at 7:49 am
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(June 24, 2016 at 7:03 am)Rhythm Wrote: When? Chiropracters consolidated their industry and business model (including profitable dependencies) in 1974 - and particularly so in "no-fault" states. I went to the seminar in 1999, or thereabouts. So the suit was some time before that.
Anecdote: My aunt was being seen by a chiro for a "bad back". She went to him twice a week for 24 weeks. On the last scheduled visit he "discovered" that she had "broken her leg" sometime in the past and needed to be treated for that. Another 48 visits. "I didn't even notice I'd broken it, I guess. It never bothered me, but he said I should have it treated." And so it goes.
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