{"id":25568,"date":"2025-04-16T19:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25568\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T19:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:40:12","slug":"mark-butler-will-bring-back-private-health-cover-for-alternative-medicine-as-soon-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/25568\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Butler will bring back private health cover for alternative medicine &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/minister_for_health_mark_butler-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMinister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has agreed to lift the ban on private health insurers funding naturopathy, yoga, Western herbal medicine and tai chi, says the Minister for Health and Aged Care.<\/p>\n<p>It follows a review of alternative medicine evidence led by former RACGP president Professor Michael Kidd.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler. The Federal Government has agreed to lift the ban on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[5002,15611,105,15612,4326,12,46,15613,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-25568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-alternative-medicine","9":"tag-complementary-and-alternative-medicine","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-policy","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-policy","15":"tag-private-health-insurance","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114349344356113024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}