27 Jan 2015
Calls to Scrap Alternative Medicine Health Insurance Rebates
Alternative medicine is under the spotlight in Australia, with calls to end private health insurance rebates for any natural healing modalities – rebates that are partly subsidised by the government. Recently on the 7.30 program on the ABC, the story “Should alternative medicines have their government rebate cut?” highlighted a draft report showing no proof that 17 different natural therapies worked, providing a basis for the call to scrap the $164 million dollar’s worth of private health insurance rebates paid out each year to people who embrace alternative therapies.
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