It boggles my mind that my medical insurance covers homeopathic and chiropractic treatments.
Which means that effectively, some portion of my astonishingly large medical insurance premium that I pay every month despite being in near-perfect health, goes to subsidize bullshit alternative medicine believers and lines the pockets of literal snake oil salespeople.
The core dynamic of health "insurance" is to restrict access to health care to pay out less, so offering up fraudulent placebo treatments make a lot of sense. Just be glad they don't force you to try using (those specific) fake cures for a year before they'll cover real treatment.
Which means that effectively, some portion of my astonishingly large medical insurance premium that I pay every month despite being in near-perfect health, goes to subsidize bullshit alternative medicine believers and lines the pockets of literal snake oil salespeople.