Secular Café: Should insurers be obliged to pay for acupuncture and other alternative medicine?

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Should insurers be obliged to pay for acupuncture and other alternative medicine? Apr 10th 2012, 04:02 CFI is campaigning about this http://www.centerforinquiry.net/opp/...r_acupuncture/ Quote: The Center for Inquiry (CFI) today wrote to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to reject lobbying efforts to require health insurance providers and organizations to cover acupuncture, and instead base the government's rules for health care coverage on science and reason... ...According to the Institute of Medicine, for a service to be eligible as an EHB, it must: (1) be safe, (2) be medically effective, (3) demonstrate meaningful improvement, (4) be a medical service, and (5) be cost effective. As we write in our letter, acupuncture meets none of these five criteria.

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