Note that this coverage amount is for the chiropractic adjustment only, according to the Manitoba Chiropractors Association (MCA), and "does not include other services such as the examination, re-examination, x-rays, consultation, general information on exercises or nutrition, or other therapies used to support the chiropractic adjustment."
In an article in the Canadian Chiropractor reporting on the cuts, Dr. Greg Stewart, a spokesperson for the MCA, emphasized the funding scale-back "flies in the face of the national opioid strategy. ... Although we have the provincial government signing on to the federal government's national opioid strategy about improving access to nonpharmacological care, at the same time within months of each other, they decrease access for the same nonpharmacological care. It's hard to understand."
Longtime readers of Dynamic Chiropractic will recall that Ontario delisted chiropractic as a partially covered service in 2004, and Alberta followed suit in 2009, leaving Manitoba as the sole Canadian province offering any measure of chiropractic coverage for all residents. One wonders whether the provincial government's next cost-saving step will be to remove chiropractic entirely from Manitoba Health. Stay tuned.
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