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The cost-effectiveness of quackery is scary.
NCAHF believes that quackery can be cost-effective; (1) if it is cheaper, (eg, vitamins and herbs instead of prescription drugs); and, (2) because patients will die sooner than they would with standard care. Cost. Health care has become outrageously expensive. Overloads of paperwork, the for-profit legal profession using its creativity to find ways to milk the medical system, a politically-sustained welfare bottomless pit, and more have driven costs to beyond reason. By comparison, most quack (ie, alternative medicine) is cheap. Some insurance companies are already testing the financial viability of writing policies for "alternative" medicine.
Effectiveness. It is the …
