Given the overall mood of the political blogosphere . . .

[mojave_wolf]

I posted this as a comment over at Anglachel's blog earlier, thought I'd repost it here (for a more positive take, see here: http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=27616) (from an electoral horse-race point of view, NC was about what I expected and Indiana

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[mojave_wolf]

How would Lewis lose his job? Seriously. It's not a one size fits all plan, people will still have as much choice (actually more) than they have now. People can choose the public option or the insurance company of their choice, and those companies will be as free to cover chiropractic as they are now. Other countries w/similar systems and w/single payer actually tend to be more likely to cover alternative means of health care, and there's no reason why the US should be different.

The whole thing sounds like the sort of stuff I've seen Obama supporters say when they claim Hillary's plan will force poor people to use their food/rent money to buy insurance, totally ignoring the sliding scale/subsidies for the very poor element of the payroll tax; I don't know what sort of bizarre misinformation is going on out there, but the spreading of this sort of thing is a huge reason I can't stand his campaign.

(sorry, but the coverage of this whole campaign and people's reaction to it has me the most upset I've been since 3/4 of the country was all gung ho about invading Iraq)

[mydocuments]

One of the things I looked at for Hillary's NHS plan did not cover any sort of alternative health care. In fact, a large amount of insurance companies don't cover alternative health care, including chiropractic. I'm sure you don't see it, because the west coast is much more open to alt medicine, but the general consensus of the medical community (and a lot of the nation as a whole) is that chiropractic is witch doctor quackery. And this is why a lot of places don't cover it.

Personally, I am vehemently opposed to national health care. I don't think it will solve the problem of uninsured Americans. My solution would instead be to create sanctions against insurance companies and the like, much like we should be doing with big oil.

[mojave_wolf]

Oh, I know a lot of places don't cover it; I just miss how Hillary's plan would make the situation any worse, since it wouldn't force the people who do cover it now to stop.

ITA w/you that chiropractic and other alternative medicines should be covered; the AMA and the medical & pharma companies are bad about trying to destroy all their competitors any way they can, including spreading and funding anti-alt (from chiropractic to tcm to herbal) propaganda.