Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2000 Feb; 26(1): 97-102, ix.

Chiropractic.

Hadler NM.

School of Medicine and Hospitals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. nmh@med.unc.edu

The chiropractic is a health care profession that offers and purveys a distinctive treatment act. When reduced to its methodology, the chiropractic is hard pressed to demonstrate effectiveness. But as a treatment act, it has gained wide acceptance. The challenge raised in this discussion relates to the "moral hazard" of including the chiropractic treatment act in more general health insurance policies.