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President Obama Sees Practical Role for Alternative Medicine

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By: Sean Moloughney

Editor, Nutraceuticals World

President Barack Obama expressed his openness to including complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in a revamped U.S. healthcare system during an April 29 Town Hall meeting in Arnold, MO. “We should do what works,” he said. “I think it is pretty well documented through scientific studies that acupuncture, for example, can be very helpful in relieving certain things like migraines and other ailments—or at least as effective as more intrusive interventions.” The response followed a question posed by a licensed acupuncturist and massage therapist, who asked the president how alternative medicine would fit into his new healthcare system. “I think one basic principle that we know is that the more we do on the prevention side, the more we can obtain serious savings down the road,” he added, also stressing the importance of changing the current logic of the healthcare system, which focuses only on reducing costs in the near-term.

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