I would like to see medical insurance cover acupuncture and herbal medicine treatments. I think most insurance companies try to "save the biggest bucks" by opting out of acupuncture treatments. But the biggest irony is that insurance companies would save more money because patients wouldn't need to go to the emergency room and the insurance company pays $8,000 to for diagnostic tests.
Acupuncture treatments costs much less like $75/treatment in most places and if people got good care prior to it becoming a medical emergency, the health of the nation would be better. Let's say someone gets $75/treatment for 2 times a month. That's $150/month or $1,800/yr for treatment of a condition. Whereas just doing a medical study like sleep study is $5,000 per single instance and $1,000 for the cpap equipment.
One can clearly see that acupuncture is clearly cheaper and works much better than shooting someone full of drugs. These companies cannot see for their own benefit. This is typical of the Myopia in how U.S. executives think.
They do not realize that it is also much cheaper than paying for a prozac prescription. With acupuncture, things get healed in a relatively short time. With prozac, it's a life long prescription.
I think a national health insurance plan should do what's best for the people and offer acupuncture coverage.
p.s. if you would like to see more examples of myopic thinking, watch the movie "Body of Lies" with Leonardo DiCaprio.
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