Is the American Medical Association Suppressing Alternative Medicine?

Is the American Medical Association suppressing alternative medicine a conspiracy? The short answer is yes and no. Yes, the A.M.A. has a long and publically well-documented history of suppressing information that does not fit into their paradigm. No, it is no longer focused on suppressing other professions, but instead focused on co-opting them.

I used to be a practicing chiropractor back in the day, but these days I focus on writing novels. I lost all taste for dealing with healthcare because of insane regulations that the A.M.A. imposed on me. Let me share a quick history on how we got here; it will help you understand what is going on now and what is rapidly coming.

Back in the early days of the country it was a true free market when it came to healthcare. Bloodletting, herbs, prayer, medicine, surgeries, magnets, electricity, radiation, osteopathy acupuncture and chiropractic were all unregulated treatments a patient could seek out. Lots of wild theories and experimental methods were being tried to cure everything under the sun. As with most free markets, eventually somebody got the idea to use the power of government to rid themselves of their competition. Medicine was no different. Eventually, investors realized there was a huge untapped market primed for controlling. There was just one big problem; how can you control an industry with so many different health care beliefs?

At the start of the twentieth century, pretty much all health professions had equal footing and had similar levels of followers. In order for the health care facilities to make large amounts of money, the public had to be persuaded into choosing one method over all the others. The other issue was that that healthcare could not be easily accessible or replicated, or else the public would just ignore it and continue to do home treatments. The professions of medicine and surgery quickly became the prominent choice of investors to put their money behind. It would allow for government patents, regulations and schooling easier than any other discipline.

The powers that be pulled political favors, created scare tactics propaganda and outright bribed politicians. In a short time, MDs, or medical doctors, deemed themselves as the leading experts in healing. The establishment trained MDs to call quackery toward anything that wasn’t medicine and even launched marketing campaigns to convince the public that THEY were at the top of the health provider food chain. At the same time, groups of politicians and MDs banned together and made all other forms of healthcare illegal to practice.

A shining example of this was the smear campaign the A.M.A. created against the profession of chiropractic. Chiropractors and osteopaths were the greatest competition to the medical profession, so they had to be dealt with first. The medical profession approached both disciplines and offered them government-sanctioned legitimacy, but at a price. The two professions would be given the powers to practice without fear of jail they would submit themselves to be under the rules of the medical profession. Osteopaths took the deal, but chiropractors defiantly refused to be ruled. With that act of defiance, the medical profession launched a war on chiropractors.

The A.M.A. formed a secret committee called the Committee on Quackery whose main purpose was to smear the profession of chiropractic to the world. False studies and stories were spread to the public to create fear that chiropractic treatments were dangerous. They created legislation and orchestrated the arrest of many chiropractors for “practicing chiropractic without a license.” To this day, a monument stands at Life University Chiropractic School. The statue list the names of the disobedient chiropractors who refused to submit to the A.M.A.’s anti-competition laws and were thrown in jail.

This all sounds like a conspiracy until these facts came to light in the court case of Wilks vs. A.M.A. The A.M.A. was found guilty of racketeering and suppressing the profession of chiropractic. The A.M.A. was highly embarrassed about the ruling and they were forced to disband the Committee on Quackery. In response to this judgment, the Committee on Quackery had to go underground and create a new strategy. Instead of openly smearing and attacking the profession, they had to choose to use the government to co-opt and regulate all the competing health professions out of existence.

The A.M.A. is dangling the carrot by telling alternative healthcare providers that they can be included in the National Health Care plan. Once their competitors are absorbed into the government’s insurance plan, the medical profession can use its power to easily manipulate the laws. Using politicians and laws, the A.M.A. can simply make competitive professions too unprofitable and too bogged down with regulations to compete.

I hate seeing what has become of my previous profession and those brave, proud and disobedient doctors who were true heroes. Now it just seems chiropractors are simply a bunch of doctors so desperate to be recognized as “real doctors” that they are the first in line to cheer for national health care, knowing that everyone will have chiropractic coverage across the board. Sadly, chiropractic associations are begging to be included in the government’s healthcare programs; however, it is that government that will ultimately destroy their profession.

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