The Future of Chiropractic

Abstract

What is to be done about chiropractors? Efforts by organized medicine to eliminate them have been unsuccessful. The label "quack" has not stuck. Despite the most strenuous opposition, they have attained licensure in every state in the United States and in Canada and many foreign countries. Over 23,000 chiropractors treat some 8 million Americans for a wide variety of conditions. Reimbursement for their services has been authorized by Medicare, Medicaid, Workmen's Compensation plans, and by many Blue Shield plans and other private insurance carriers. Chiropractors received more than $30 million of Medicare funds in 1978. Over 2000 new chiropractors will . . .