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behind that treatment that is most important: to allow the body to heal, to remove interference, to remove stress, and to provide better nerve flow and motion in the joint,” he says. “That’s what will resonate with the public.” Dr. Jaffe is heading an expanded government relations effort to raise chiropractors’ visibility in Washington and state capitols. In 2024 alone, the hospital industry spent 52 times more than the chiropractic profession on lobbying. “The gap is staggering. It is literally David and Goliath,” Dr. Jaffe shares. While many practitioners resist working within the system alongside insurance companies, hospitals, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, and advertisers, lawmakers must be persuaded to allow chiropractic to participate more in Medicare and other third-party payor plans, he says. “We have to speak in a stronger voice, and to be heard and trusted, and respected by decision-makers.”
Dr. Jaffe is a director. The plan is based on input from more than 4,000 chiropractors. The Strategic Plan has also created an insurance dashboard to help chiropractors navigate reimbursements, a tech arm to create a database for analytics and AI, and a group to promote academic research to advance the profession. Dr. Jaffe agrees that Chiro1Source is unique among stakeholders in the profession in its consistent, unswerving support of the group’s efforts. He hopes that more of the nation’s 70,000 chiros will be willing to donate one adjustment a month to each of three causes: their state association’s PAC, and BAC-PAC.
“That investment will help protect your license, help ensure that you get paid fairly, and improve the visibility and reputation of the profession,” he says. “And all that will pay off in the form of more patients coming into your office.”
The Chiropractic Super PAC is part of a the Chiropractic Future Strategic Plan, which was born by by the ChiroCongress, where
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