Containment; refers to the shared effects of structuring a set of restraints into a nation’s health care, limiting the accessibility, affordability of chiropractic to patients while denying competitive rights to that nation’s chiropractors.

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Iatro refers to physician, genesis refers to create, iatrogenesis is the name given to a problem due not to their illness but their treatment".ⁱ Unsatisfactory medical outcomesⁱⁱ and fear of iatrogenesis are reasons given by patients for switching to chiropractic.

Being denied direct, access to chiropractic is usually not life threatening, but being unnecessarily exposed to iatrogenic risk may threaten life.

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John Archer’s 1995 book, Bad Medicineⁱⁱⁱ looked at harm arising from medical treatment as distinct from the patient’s disorder. No one seems to have discredited his estimates of about 50,000 iatrogenic deaths and 750,000 permanent injuries per year in Australia.

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Similar more extensive US research by three MDs and a PhD concluded that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year.

“It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US.”^iv

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According to those ballpark estimates the entire spectrum of iatrogenic harm, accumulating over decades, may far exceed all of the deaths which have occurred among the nation’s serving defence force personnel in all of the wars in which Australia has been a combatant.

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A government created, anticompetitive trading environment contributes toward an apparent silent ‘epidemic’^vvi of harm arising from medical treatment as distinct from the patient’s disorder.

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The risk of iatrogenic harm justifies ensuring that 1) chiropractic is directly accessible and reimbursable within public health and that 2) medicine is the last rather than either the first or the only option for public patients who have subluxation related disorders.

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