Alternative medical bureaucracy grows ... and grows and grows

First budget for Office of Alternative Medicine -- $2 million.

Budget after 30 years and a name change to National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health -- $521 million.

‘The Alternative Medicine Racket: How the Feds Fund Quacks’

http://reason.com/reasontv/2015/09/04/alternative-medicine-racket

(Medicine has been a racket since insurance companies got involved. Was a time when people paid out a doctor’s bill by the month. Was a time when people could afford that $5 a month. Now the system has research at drug company labs and medical machine companies, paid-for research at university labs, and expectations of cures if a patient or his/her family has enough money or enough insurance. Was a time people got old and died.

(My father died too young, at 69. His father died at 75; his mother, at 96. My mother died at 88; her parents, in their early 70s. Because of machines and drugs, my father was kept alive a week from his initial heart attack. My mother spent her last three years in a nursing home. My mother-in-law died last year at age 88, in our home. She could have lived maybe a few more months or a year in a nursing home or hospital, but with tubes attached and machines pumping medicines.

(Off subject, but I do not agree with people who tell doctors “You do whatever is necessary,” and the relative has machine breathing, feeding and medicating, 24/7.)

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