NBJ Integrative Medicine Report

Nutrition Business Journal
March 8, 2011
SKU: NUT6800434
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Countries covered: United States

With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, the cards are now on the proverbial table for healthcare reform in the United States. Funding levels for a public trust long championed by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) increase from $500 million in 2010 to $2 billion annually starting in 2015, totaling $15 billion over the next ten years. There’s no clearer evidence that integrative medicine has entered the mainstream discussion of health and wellness, as well as the often heated public debate about ways to meaningfully address an escalating healthcare crisis.

“For the first time in history, we have decided not just to pay lip service to wellness and prevention, but actually to invest in wellness and prevention in a very robust way,” said Senator Harkin in a September floor statement. While the ultimate presentation of healthcare reform to the American public and final authorization levels remain uncertain, especially in light of recent state court decisions to overturn the individual mandate as unconstitutional, one thing is very clear. “This law, for the first time, directly and explicitly includes the concepts and language of integrative healthcare, integrative healthcare practitioners, and complementary and alternative medicine,” said John Weeks, publisher and editor of the Integrator Blog. “That’s a change.”

Specific language in the law does give reference to “integrative health” in delineating the top priorities of a health council tasked with enacting the law. President Obama himself is also tasked with the establishment of an advisory panel to guide the council, defined as “a diverse group of licensed health professionals, including integrative health practitioners” with experience in, among other disciplines, preventive medicine. The power brokers in Washington have clearly warmed to integrative approaches to healthcare, and the industry stands poised to dramatically benefit from its mounting contribution to public health in the United States.


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