How come health insurance pays for stuff like acupuncture and naturopathy?
I suspect it is to get patients with chronic nonfatal mild conditions onto cheaper regimens that may not actually work but do no harm and cost less than mainstream stuff.
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Exactly, favorable asymmetry risk/reward by leveraging time aspect (regression to mean), I.e probability pain goes away after a while
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As would say: healthcare is not about healing, but (more) about showing ill people that we care.
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Only a few woke ones pay for it. Not all I believe.
Contested territory in terms of evidence...
Even if unprovable, Psychosomatic / placebo effects are non-trivial.
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The mainstream stuff is a mix of known to work (antibiotics, vaccines etc) and stuff that’s unclear/still being figured out (statins). Stuff that’s known to NOT work does get weeded out though it takes time.
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