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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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But in that article they are talking about depression. Only in passing they talk about pain and how it works better for that. Anyway, I think insurances cover it specifically for pain.
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I don’t think there’s any rigorous evidence for any benefit. Not that I’ve seen. It’s all first-person anecdata with no unconfounding for placebo effects. My null hypothesis is there is nothing there.