Article: Alternative health care eases into insurance coverage.

Calls for employers to offer insurance coverage for nontraditional health care practices will increase as the popularity of alternative medical treatments continues to grow. According to a New England Journal of Medicine study published in 1993, close to one-third of all Americans have tried unconventional medical therapies including massage, acupuncture, hypnosis, herbal medicine, homeopathy and chiropractic treatment. The most common iflnesses or conditions for which alternative health care therapies were used included back problems, headaches, anxiety, chronic pain and cancer. Experimentation with such therapies occurred across afl racial, gender and age lines, but was most ...

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