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JAMA. 1970;211(6):1002-1003.

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When the Medicare legislation was adopted by the Congress in 1965, there was inherent in the legislation the requirement that the health services provided should be quality services, section 1802 guaranteeing beneficiaries services of "any institution, or person qualified to participate" [italics added].

The Congress then and since has wisely excluded chiropractic and other such cults from services covered under the legislation.

The American Medical Association (and the rest of the scientific health-care community) has supported this position taken by the Congress, believing that it shares with the Congress the responsibility of maintaining quality health care for the nation's elderly. To do otherwise—to include chiropractice—would reduce the quality and increase the cost of the program. Even more important, it would open the program to such other unscientific cult practices as naturopathy, naprapathy, and many others.

The Congress in the Social Security amendments adopted in 1967 (section 141 of Public Law . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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