Everything these days is commodified. Everything has a price. The healing world as much as the surfing or mushroom or forest world... All the things we love are repackaged and sold. I may be cynical and a grumpy old woman but that's where I'm at right now.
That poor man - how awful.
You can see why governments step in to regulate that kind of thing. Unfortunately it has a knock on effects on genuine alternative healing that also cops the regulation when we really need it.