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Demand Chiropractic in the New National Health Care Plan

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The government is currently deciding the “minimum” benefits that will be provided in the new National Health Care Plan. Chiropractic services are in danger of being left out.

When Congress passed national healthcare legislation in March, they gave the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) the authority to determine the categories of services which must be included in future health plans. The initial categories being considered do not include “neuromusculoskeletal care”, which is the core of what is treated by chiropractors. Unless neuromusculoskeletal care is added as an essential benefit category, chiropractic care will be left out of the plan. (more…)

Medical Pushback on Provider Nondiscrimination Law

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SOURCE:   Health Insights Today

By Daniel Redwood, DC

Among the important changes in the recently passed health reform law is Section 2706, which makes it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against providers acting within the scope of their state licenses. Predictably, medical physicians who have benefited from many decades of discrimination now seek to turn back the clock and reinstate the pro-discrimination policies that have served them so well for so long.

Meeting in Chicago in mid-June (as reported in the “Contain and Eliminate” post below) , the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. This new AMA policy directs the organization to use its considerable firepower to overturn the provider nondiscrimination clause, citing its “troubling language” that upsets the “dynamic balance” under which insurers were free to discriminate against a long list of non-MD providers, including optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, psychologists, clinical social workers, acupuncturists, and other groups of licensed health practitioners. (more…)

AMA’s “Contain and Eliminate” Tactics Are Alive and Well

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SOURCE:   Dynamic Chiropractic

Below you will find an exerpted article about new and devious actions by the AMA House of Delegates, copied from a recent issue of Dynamic Chiropractic, and penned by the illustrious Louis Sportelli, DC

As a modern-day doctor of chiropractic, you may think this article is born of ancient paranoia. Perhaps you’re convinced this is about AMA bashing and yesterday’s news. But just look around and you will see clear and compelling evidence that the long-standing war between the AMA and everyone else who does not come under the AMA umbrella is far from over.

The names have changed, the venue has changed, the approach has changed and the legality has changed, but the intent has remained the same: to maintain monopolistic control over the delivery of health care.

AMA Policies Continue to Discriminate (more…)