Perhaps this lack of integrity is our greatest problem. Part of the inaccessibility of chiropractic due to fees is also the fault of the practice management people. They talk constantly about fair and equitable fee for services rendered yet I would venture to say, not one in ten of their parents could afford the fees they encourage their clients to charge. Their argument for high fees is that we are providing a great service to humanity, as important or more important a service then medicine. But that is an illogical argument.
Many people get along without physicians for years.
But without the sanitation men, trash, garbage, rats, and disease would overwhelm us. Yet we do not consider that the garbage man's wages should be higher than the M.D.'s. You cannot compare apples and oranges. Medicine and chiropractic are just as foreign to each other as are medicine and garbage collecting. When it really comes down to it, the service we are performing as chiropractors is next to nothing.