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  1. Don Alaska

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    I went to a chiropractor last week, and he told me Medicare forbids DCs from treating any acute injuries in Medicare-eligible patients, even if they are not billed. You don't even have to have Medicare for this to apply, just be eligible. This sounds crazy and I have never heard such a thing. Anybody else ever heard this? Supposedly they can only treat chronic conditions, not injuries.
     
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    How can a .gov insurance agency forbid such a consensual transaction? All they can do is decline to pay a bill. They are not a regulator. I am in their market demographics, but they do not dictate the care I may seek.
     
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    Yeah, I don't know if it is true and I don't know how they would know if they are not billed, especially since Chiropractic isn't generally added to medical records that the government has access to.
     
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    Chiropractors had to sue to get medicare payments but the rules are weird. I went to mine without insurance for a long time. I have gotten mri's without insurance because I wanted them and not doctor's recommendations. (we have a private company that gives them without insurance a few miles away)
    Could it be that the powers that be feel the DC's might cause more injury through manipulation that insurance would then have to cover?
     
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    The AMA likely has their greedy mitts in the middle.

    I've seen a chiropractor, and it helped (unless is was just the exercises I did using his place as a gym.) My work insurance paid for a number of DC appointments per year.
     
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    Yes, perhaps, but why only Medicare patients or those eligible? You would think that it wouldn't be linked to potential payment. I myself was nearly killed by medical mishandling after an accident, and no chiropractors were involved.
     
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    "In the 1830s, Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham, a member of the temperance movement, became convinced that people's diets were making them lustful. Graham believed that anything that provided physical pleasure caused societal harm and defied God's wishes.

    The minister recommended not sleeping in soft beds, taking warm baths, or basically doing anything that anyone enjoys. He was also militant about diet. Graham, one of the earliest proponents of vegetarianism in the United States, developed a religiously guided diet composed only of raw vegetables. To supplement his diet, he developed Graham crackers, intending to make them as bland as possible so as not to cause sexual excitement"
     
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    And then he added a square of Hersheys chocolate and a marshmallow. The rest is history.
     
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    I forget which major cereal manufacturer (Kelloggs?) invented cereal in order to quell libidos.
     
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    I wonder how deep the keel goes on the cruise ship and hope it is never hit broadside.
     
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