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Bobby,
Again, with great respect to believers in what is now described as "Alternative Medicine", insurance companies, in this competitive environment will give their subscribers pretty much what they want. Most nonstandard remedies do no harm, since about 95% of what goes wrong with us is self limited anyway. If we had had the insurance competition during the phase of Laetrile (for cancer) popularity, I'm sure they would have covered it. As it was, heavy political pressure eventually got legislation passed in FL which allowed use of Laetrile. Funny, though, once it became legal, interest waned rapidly and then disappeared completely. Of course it was a huge scam, but its promoters and true believers said that that mean old medical establishment wants to cut you up and poison you, etc, etc, so they can keep on making that money!
Now I have no problem if any adult wants to go to Mexico and spend his life savings on coffee enemas and broccoli juice or whatever is the fad this month. And if insurance companies choose to pay for it, that's OK too. I have plenty of work to do.
It does seem strange, though, in a scientific age, when we are all sending electrons to each other that reassemble magically at the others' screens, that there is such mistrust of science in the medical field. Granted, the establishment has been too reluctant in the past to examine all theories, but that has changed. Granted, too, that the currently available technologies are less than perfect. They're working on it.
I'm just glad nobody is trying "alternative" instrument landing systems when I fly.
Jack |
