Alternative Medicine

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or cure illness. The
more rigid and restrictive the policy provisos, the more
assurance for the companies that they will maximize their bottom
lines. Therefore, patients of alternative therapies as well as
doctors must show that such unconventional treatment provides
relief and prevention of illness. “The total projected out-of-
pocket expenditure for unconventional therapy plus
supplements(such as diet pills and megavitamins)was 10.3 billion
dollars in 1990. This is comparable to the out-of-pocket
expenditure for all hospital care in the United States in
1990($12.8 billion), and it is nearly half the amount spent out
of pocket for all physicians’ services in the United States($23.5
billion)”(nemj,1991). From this one may infer that society has
become fed up with inadequate results or side effects associated
with surgery and drugs which accompany the treatment of modern
medicine. So, in an effort to cope with the inadequate treatment
patients are receiving from ...

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Hospital Only plan. As required by State and Federal law, the
office is also required to make available approved HMO’s if
employees request them. To that end, the office has a large
number of employees enrolled in Kaiser-Permanente and Health Net
HMO’s. The administrative agency that provides the programs is
the Self Insured Schools of California, (“SISC”), which is a
cost-containment consortium of hundreds of California school
districts. Currently, SISC provides coverage for more than
thirty-five thousand employees and their eligible dependents. In
addition to medical coverages, the office also provides life,
vision, dental, prescription and mental ...

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