Wonderful overlooked fact about Obamacare--it will curtail mandatory alternative medicine coverage!

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. Let me give you a little story on acupuncture "nonsense".

My mother is 79 years old and had been suffering from severe sciatica for well over a year. She did physical therapy and pain killers, heck, anything suggested by her various back doctors. She was in chronic pain, was taking way too many pain meds (ended up with a bleeding esophagus), and becoming so debilitated she was unable to stand for more than a few minutes at a time. She was at the point she was considering a very risky surgery to have bones fused in her back in an attempt to stop the pain. The lumbar specialist who was considering the procedure finally said he was not comfortable doing it because it was just too risky for her circumstances and it might not even work on the pain. Completely desperate, she asked him what else she could do. His sole suggestion: acupuncture.

Even though she thought the doctor and his suggestion were full of shit, I brought her in to our local acupuncture college where she received her first needle treatment and herbs at their low cost clinic.

After that one treatment -- one treatment -- she was pain free for 3 straight days for the first time in over a year. She did treatment once a week for three months, and has remained pain free for six months. She is walking daily, can do her chores, engage in her favorite activities -- everything she was unable to do before treatments.

She is planning of getting ongoing treatments every few months to keep her back as healthy as possible.

So, I am thrilled there was treatment available to help her when western medicine had reached its limits, and I am sorry that more Americans will not have the same healing opportunity as my Mom.