Medicare and Alternative Medicine

I recently wrote about the free preventive medicine appointments offered by Medicare. Those are worthwhile and are based on good science, but I was surprised to see that Medicare sometimes departs from rigorously science-based standards. They also cover alternative medicine treatments based on fantasy. Chiropractic According to Medicare.gov: “Medicare Part B (Medical Insurance) covers manipulation of the spine by a chiropractor or other […]

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