Quoted verbatim from the reference link below :
https://www.irma-
In 2000 President Clinton, mindful of rising healthcare costs and growing evidence of the benefits of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), commissioned a panel to study the possibility that CAM could reduce healthcare costs as well as improve the general health of the American population (White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, 2002)
The leaders of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy gathered an esteemed panel, solicited public input, and navigated the differences of opinion between those who believe in the worth of CAM and those who were skeptical or downright negative, or so they thought. After years of negotiation, two of the committee members felt their views were not sufficiently considered and wrote a letter to the secretary of Heath and Human Services that negated the heart of the panel’s conclusions….there was the possibility of benefit from a more holistic, far-reaching, and often long-standing approach to healing and more research was warranted. (Fins and Low Dog, 2002) The committee’s recommendations were effectively tabled and forgotten."
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